Death Quotes
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.Don Delillo
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
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
I have harnessed the shadows that stride from world to world to sow death and madness...HP Lovecraft, From Beyond
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
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
It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.Horace, Odes
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
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
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
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.Emily Dickinson
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)
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.William H. Walton
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".
Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.Robert Bolt
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.Albert Einstein
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
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".
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.Sophocles
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.Danish prove
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.Buddha
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.Jean Anouilh
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
