Death Quotes
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
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
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
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Sir Francis Bacon
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.Anonymous
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.Ayn Rand
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?Anaximenes
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things - Disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.Emma Thompson, Vanity Fai
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.Buddha
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
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
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
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Thomas Browne
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.Sophocles, Electra
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.Don Delillo
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.David Searls
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.Bhagavad Gita
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
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
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.Robert
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or 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
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.Thomas Mann
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
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
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
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".
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.Mavette Sadile
