Death Quotes
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.Miguel de Cervantes
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.Bhagavad Gita
For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.Bhagavad Gita
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.Pan Ku
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.Sophocles, Electra
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
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
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.Oscar Wilde
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 agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.Tom Stoppard
Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Soldiers who are not afraid of guns, bombs, capture, torture or death say they are afraid of homosexuals. Clearly we should not be used as soldiers; we should be used as weapons.Anonymous, Letter to the Editor, The Advocate
The first condition of immortality is death.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
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
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.Alice Walke
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.Plato
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.Chief Seattle
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
What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.Danish prove
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.Elbert Hubbard
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
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
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.Saki
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
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
On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all - - The soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.Mark Twain
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.David Searls
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
