Death Quotes
Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....Longfellow
He can be lethal death.Jerry Coleman
I would fain die a dry death.William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 1
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
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
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry, Meeting of the First Continental Congress in 1774
If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice.Pan Ku
Death tugs at my ear and says: Live, I am coming.Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
Death is not extinguishing the light It is simply putting out the lamp Because the dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
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
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
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, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.Ivan Illich
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.Tom Stoppard
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft - Minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.Martin Luther King Jr.
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
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.Dave Barry
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.J. J. Fumas
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, Death Be Not Proud
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.George Santayana
To judge the real importance of an individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.Peter de Gaston Levis
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
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.Albert Einstein
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.William Hazlitt
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop?Brian Patten, Schoolboy (1990)
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, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death".
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - - Ourselves.Eda LeShan
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.Alfred Tennyson
