Death Quotes
A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Not going home is already like death.E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
I am sailing out along parallel 32. 5 to stress that this is the Libyan border. This is the line of death where we shall stand and fight with our backs to the wall. On planning confrontation with US Sixth Fleet in Mediterranean.Muammar Qaddafi
Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.Eric Sevareid
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
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
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 most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Kahlil Gibran
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.Jordan, Robert
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.J. J. Fumas
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
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
That is not dead which can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die.HP Lovecraft, Quoting the Necronomicon, in The Nameless City
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.A. Mark Wells
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Give death a better name or die trying.Timothy Leary
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.Latin Prove
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark Twain
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita", Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.Thomas Mann
Some people imagine that nuclear war will mean instant and painless death. But for millions this will not be the case. The accounts of the injured at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and of the doctors who tried to tend them, witness to the horrors and torments which would be magnified thousands of times over in the kinds of attack we analyse here...Stan Openshaw - Doomsday
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
Security is a kind of death.Tennessee Williams
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
