Death Quotes
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.Percy B. Shelley
Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.W. E. Orchard
Death? It? s the only thing we haven? t succeeded in completely vulgarizing.Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Sir Francis Bacon
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.Plato, Dialogues, Apology
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.
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
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.Tryon Edwards
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
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. Cats, he said eventually. Cats are nice.Terry Pratchet, Sourcery
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
I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.Nancy Reagan
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.Francis Bacon
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
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)
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
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
Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.Marcus Aurelius
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.John Donne
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.Buddha
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Stal Stal
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.Saki
Immortality - - A fate worse than death.Edgar A. Shoaff
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.Latin Prove
