Death Quotes
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
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
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
A penny for your thoughts? A dollar for your death.Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.Chief Seattle
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 Pratchett, Sourcery
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.Robert Maynard Hutchins
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.John Dryden
Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!Edgar Allen Poe
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Cowards die many times before their deathsThe valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.Tom Stoppard
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 brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Sir Thomas Brown
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.Mark Twain
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.T. S. Elliot
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
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
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.Home
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.Heywood Brown
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
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".
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).
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.Joe Moore
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.George Santayana
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.Elbert Hubbard
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
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
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.Woody Allen
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
