Death Quotes

Peter de gaston levis - to judge the real importance of an individual, we...
David adger, core syntax: a minimalist approach - of course we can keep this going, in principle,...
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 is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
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)
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walke
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mark twain, new york journal, june 2, 1897 - the report of my death was an exaggeration....
We can become anything. That is why injustice is impossible here. There may be the accident of birth, there is no accident of death. Nothing forces us to remain what we were.
John Berge
The resounding echo of the mortal coil, echoes in the ears of those who are unprepared for it. To some, it sounds like a symphony - To others, a death toll.
George Whelton
Give death a better name or die trying.
Timothy Leary
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Anthony Robbins
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. Munro (Saki)
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
Give me an incubator or give me death!
Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Voltaire
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Kahlil Gibran
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire, (Attributed); originated in "The Friends of Voltaire", 1906, by S. G. Tallentyre (Evelyn Beatrice Hall)
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.
Eric Hoffe
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
Chief Seattle
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
A. Mark Wells
Give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
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
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, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thoughts or action we should remember our dying and try so to live, that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John Steinbeck
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Not going home is already like death.
E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
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