Death Quotes
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
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Jean Anouilh
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
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
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.Emily Dickinson
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Isaac Bashevis Singe
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.Oliver Wendell Holmes
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
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
The goal of all life is death.Sigmund Freud
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.H. H. Munro (Saki)
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.Homer, The Iliad
The failure of the mind in old age is often less the results of natural decay, than of disuse. Ambition has ceased to operate; contentment bring indolence, and indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of disease induced by intellectual vacancy.Sir B. Brodie
The coming together of two laudable movements - - Death with dignity and cost containment - - Concerns me Patients have a right to die. But do they have a duty to die.Mark Siegle
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendor of the Mighty one - - I am become Death, The shatterer of Worlds.Hindu Spiritual
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.General John Stark
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 prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.Tom Hanks
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.Peter de Gaston Levis
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.Eric Hoffe
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
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
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.Froude
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing.Oscar Wilde
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
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Francis Bacon
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
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".
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
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
