Death Quotes
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.T. S. Elliot
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
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave just one.Anonymous
Courage is being scared to death - But saddling up anyway.John Wayne
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
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Albert Einstein
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
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.Mary Renault, The Praise Singer, 1978
The first condition of immortality is death.Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Death hath so many doors to let out life.John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
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
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
Death comes to all But great achievements raise a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows old.George Fabricius
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.Aeschylus
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!Richard Jeni
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Is there life before death.Graffito
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
They say that the wages of sin is death. But after taxes its just a tired feeling really.Paula Poundstone, HBO stand - Up routine
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.Angelina Jolie
To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet
If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.J. Robert Oppenheimer, Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita", Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death: To stop sinning suddenly.Elbert Hubbard
To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.William H. Walton
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mark Twain, New York Journal, June 2, 1897
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is the resolute acceptance of death.Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
Repetition is the death of art.Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one.Tom Hanks
