Death Quotes
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
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
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
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.Publilius Syrus
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.David Searls
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.Carl Sandburg
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.Thomas Mann
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.General John Stark
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.Voltaire
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.Publilius Syrus
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
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink - Offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.Aeschylus (525 - 456 B. C.), Frag. 146 (trans. by Plumptre).
Sleep, those little slices of death, how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Death is as light as a feather; duty as heavy as a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.Don Delillo
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.Ayn Rand
There is something about poverty that smells like death.Zora Neale Hurston
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.Dave Barry
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark Twain
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)
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.Anthony Robbins
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.Austin Farra
To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?Anaximenes
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
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
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Give me an incubator or give me death!Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.Thomas Mann
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.Michelangelo Buonarroti
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
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana, Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines".
