Death Quotes
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.William Shakespeare, Julius Caesa
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.Yukio Mishima
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.Latin Prove
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.
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
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.Tom Hanks
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.Joseph Stalin
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.David Searls
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
For authentic living what is needed is the resolute confrontation of death.Martin Heidegge
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.Sophocles, Electra
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
Of course we can keep this going, in principle, forever. In practice we will keel over from exhaustion, boredom, or death.David Adger, Core Syntax: A Minimalist Approach
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.Assyrian Prove
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
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
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.Josef Stalin
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.Emily Dickinson
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 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
Is there life before death?Graffito, in Belfast
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
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
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
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
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.Albert Einstein
And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, None knew so well as I: For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
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)
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.George Santayana
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
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. Handwritten statement found in her residence.Indira Nehru Gandhi
We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New York. 22 September, 1940
To the well - Organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.J. K. Rowling
