Death Quotes

Robert e. lee, conversation with gen. longstreet - to be a good soldier, you must love the army. to...
Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.
H. H. Munro (Saki)
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
Patrick henry, a speech before the american revolution - give me liberty, or give me death....
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
George Gordon Byron
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
Albert einstein, on atomic energy, jan. 22, 1947 - we believe that an informed citizenry will act...
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
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
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.
William H. Walton
Becuase I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)
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
Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
Edgar Allen Poe
Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.
Josef Stalin
I want to go on living even after my death, And therefore I am grateful to God For giving this gift? Of expressing all that is in me.
Ann Frank, Diary of Ann Frank
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
John Donne
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Thomas Browne
Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.
Jordan, Robert
Repetition is the death of art.
Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.
Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.
George Fabricius
Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death.
Plato
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
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
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
Osho, The art of Dying
Because I could not stop for Death - - He kindly stopped for me - - The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.
Emily Dickinson
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
Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.
James Madison, Federalist Papers (# 10)
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
Is there life before death.
Graffito
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
Edmund White
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
T. S. Elliot
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.
Ivan Illich
Death is not the worst rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.
Sophocles