Death Quotes
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.Napoleon Bonaparte
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging - Home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend... ye may look death in the face with joy.Samual Rutherford
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.Sir Francis Bacon, "Of Death".
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.Voltaire
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.Marcus Aurelius
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.Assyrian Prove
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.Saki
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.Sophocles, Electra
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.Osho, The art of Dying
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.Martin Luthe
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.Seneca, Epistulae Morales
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.Anouk Aimee
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.Charles Feidelson, Jr.
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.Joseph Addison
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.S. G. Tallentyre
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.Jonathan Swift
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
Is there life before death?Graffito, in Belfast
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.John Donne
