Death Quotes
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.Bhagavad Gita
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.Anthony Robbins
I was court - Martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Francis Behan
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.Oscar Wilde
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or 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
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.W. Somerset Maugham
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
Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.Edgar Allan Poe
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
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.Albert Einstein
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
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
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
It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.Eric Hoffe
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
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.Mark Twain
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.Rabbi Harold Kushne
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.Tom Hanks
In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.Martin Luthe
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 be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for thou art not so, For, those, whom thou thinkst, thou dost overthrow, die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.John Donne
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
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)
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 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)
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
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. N. B. This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.S. G. Tallentyre
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.Heinrich Heine
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.Dave Barry
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 Pratchett, Sourcery
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. N. B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.J. Robert Oppenheime
