Death Quotes

Stanislaw j. lec, unkempt thoughts - i am against using death as a punishment. i am...
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Ka
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Jordan, robert - duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter...
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sir thomas brown - it is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but...
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Give me an incubator or give me death!
Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.
Terry Pratchet, Sourcery
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
If a person is determined to fight to the death, then they may very well have that opportunity.
Donald H. Rumsfeld, on Iraqi Resistance Fighters
The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.
Unknown
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.
Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Masterlinck
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls
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
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dr. Robert Schulle
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Buddha
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
Give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.
Cicero
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
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Maya Angelou
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
Eric Hoffe
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.
James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas Alva Edison
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.
Woody Allen