Death Quotes
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
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death.H. H. Munro (Saki)
My wallpaper and i are fighting a duel to death. One or the other has to go.Oscar Wilde
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
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)
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.Robert Green Ingersoll
Security is a kind of death.Tennessee Williams
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.Johnny Carson
A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.Dixie Lee Ray
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.J. J. Fumas
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
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.Charles Feidelson, Jr.
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
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.Homer, The Iliad
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
A penny for your thoughts? A dollar for your death.Felix and Oscar, from the Odd Couple
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.Aeschylus, Agamemnon
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.Chief Seattle
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.Thomas Mann
Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.Anouk Aimee
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the Dawn has come.Rabindranath Tagore
Give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry, a speech before the American Revolution
He can be lethal death.Jerry Coleman
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
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.Angelina Jolie
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.Mark Twain
