Death Quotes
Death Its the only thing we havent succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.Epicurus
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.Carl Sandburg
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.Latin Prove
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
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 more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.Woody Allen
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
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.J. J. Fumas
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
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.Napoleon Bonaparte
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
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.H. H. Munro (Saki)
Death hath so many doors to let out life.John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?Anaximenes
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Francis Behan
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
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 comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.John Donne
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Not going home is already like death.E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.Heywood Brown
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.Confucius
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.Homer, The Iliad
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Maya Angelou
Is there life before death.Graffito
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
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.Tom Hanks
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".
