Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

death

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Death's in the good-bye.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

In every parting there is an image of death.

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Everything that gets born dies.

For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Grumbling is the death of love.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

There is something about poverty that smells like death.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Science without conscience is the death of the soul.

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Birth was the death of him.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

Death is a fearful thing.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

Our life is made by the death of others.

The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

The sole equality on earth is death.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

The goal of all life is death.

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Give me liberty or give me death.

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Inactivity is death.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.

Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

I'm working myself to death.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

Normality is death.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.

Failure too is a form of death.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.