Death Quotes

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

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".

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)

Death: To stop sinning suddenly.

Elbert Hubbard

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series)

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.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Lyman Beeche

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

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.

Jonathan Swift

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.

Percy B. Shelley

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

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

William H. Walton

For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.

Martin Heidegge

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Francis Bacon

A nation that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Oscar Wilde

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2

Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Ivan Illich

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 most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Kahlil Gibran

Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

Cicero

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.

Deane Jordan

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

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan

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

The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.

Unknown

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates