Death Quotes

Robert maynard hutchins - the death of democracy is not likely to be an...
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferbe
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
Sir Walter Scott
Terry pratchett, sourcery - i meant, said ipslore bitterly, what is there in...
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.
Aeschylus
Oscar wilde - biography lends to death a new terror....
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.
Jean Froissart, 1359
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - - Ourselves.
Eda LeShan
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
An answer is always a form of death.
John Dean
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.
Albert Einstein
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
I would fain die a dry death.
William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.
Edgar A. Shoaff
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
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
Don Delillo
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
William Shakespeare
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
John Donne
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Kahlil Gibran
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil Gibran
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Tyron Edwards
The death - Knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.
Theodore Roosevelt, Labor Day speech at Syracuse, NY, Sept 7, 1903 ("Theodore Rex" - Edmund Morris)
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.
Anonymous
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
A. Mark Wells
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
John Berge
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load ride not a free horse to death.
Miguel de Cervantes
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse Ka
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
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Sir Francis Bacon
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne