The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
98 more views from Mark Twain
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.
11 other quotes from Henry Van Dyke
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
52 sayings from Albert Camus
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
52 other quotes from George Eliot
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
52 sayings from George Eliot
The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
78 quotes from Voltaire
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
98 more views from Mark Twain
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
12 wisdom & wit from William Cowper
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
32 more views from William Blake
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.
52 more views from George Eliot
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
3 more sayings from Barry Cornwall
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
3 sayings from Ivan Turgenev
Death's in the good-bye.
2 views from Anne Sexton
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
98 wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
9 other quotes from Pope John XXIII
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
98 sayings from Mark Twain
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
78 other sayings from Voltaire
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.
14 thoughts from Hedy Lamarr
In every parting there is an image of death.
52 sayings from George Eliot
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
78 more quotes from Voltaire
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
52 other quotes from Albert Camus
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
10 views from Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
52 thoughts from George Eliot
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.
14 quotes from Laurence Sterne
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
11 other thoughts from Henry Van Dyke
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
29 quotes from Friedrich Schiller
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
30 sayings from Gustave Flaubert
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.
5 thoughts from Jean Racine
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
26 wisdom & wit from Emily Dickinson
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
14 other thoughts from Heinrich Heine
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
5 wisdom & wit from John Milton
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
11 other thoughts from Joseph Stalin
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
6 more thoughts from Alexander Smith
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
14 quotes from Jim Morrison
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
11 sayings from Joseph Stalin
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
7 quotes from Edvard Munch
Everything that gets born dies.
2 quotes from Morrie Schwartz
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.
46 more sayings from George Santayana
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
7 quotes from Edvard Munch
Grumbling is the death of love.
10 quotes from Marlene Dietrich
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
12 thoughts from George MacDonald
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
9 sayings from Willa Cather
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
26 more thoughts from Emily Dickinson
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
5 quotes from Jean Racine
One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.
11 quotes from Joseph Stalin
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
7 quotes from Edvard Munch
Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
14 wisdom & wit from Heinrich Heine
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
14 more views from Heinrich Heine
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
5 views from George Whitefield
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
14 other wisdom & wit from Jim Morrison
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.
4 more quotes from William Lloyd Garrison
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
11 sayings from Joseph Stalin
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
23 more sayings from Henry Miller
To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
68 other sayings from Samuel Butler
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
46 more views from George Santayana
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
5 more views from Albert Pike
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
10 other thoughts from Marlene Dietrich
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
7 sayings from John Greenleaf Whittier
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
17 quotes from Sammy Davis, Jr.
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.
8 more quotes from Tryon Edwards
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
17 sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
14 sayings from Charles de Montesquieu
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
24 more wisdom & wit from W. C. Fields
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
12 quotes from Zora Neale Hurston
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
26 views from E. M. Forster
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
41 sayings from Martin Luther King, Jr.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
41 other quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
7 thoughts from Jose Marti
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.
10 thoughts from John Donne
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
21 other sayings from Abu Bakr
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
26 wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
29 wisdom & wit from W. Somerset Maugham
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
29 more quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
21 more thoughts from Abu Bakr
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
56 more sayings from Khalil Gibran
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
36 other sayings from Lord Byron
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
24 more sayings from W. C. Fields
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
8 more quotes from Tryon Edwards
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
56 other views from Khalil Gibran
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
21 quotes from Abu Bakr
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
3 thoughts from William Wycherley
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
67 other wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
96 more quotes from Benjamin Franklin
I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
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.
2 more thoughts from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it.
14 quotes from Loretta Young
I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
11 other views from Douglas MacArthur
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
56 wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
3 more views from Alfred Russel Wallace
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
16 quotes from Isaac Asimov
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.
67 thoughts from Francis Bacon
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
14 more quotes from Charles de Montesquieu
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
6 wisdom & wit from Edith Wharton
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
7 other quotes from Jose Marti
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.
26 quotes from E. M. Forster
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
8 other wisdom & wit from Tryon Edwards
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?
19 thoughts from Edgar Allan Poe
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
19 thoughts from Edgar Allan Poe
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
24 views from Ayn Rand
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
29 thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
5 views from Omar N. Bradley
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
3 more wisdom & wit from Jeanne Calment
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
24 other quotes from James Russell Lowell
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
21 quotes from W. H. Auden
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
8 quotes from Dwight L. Moody
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
32 other quotes from Michel de Montaigne
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
14 quotes from Bertolt Brecht
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
14 other thoughts from Bertolt Brecht
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
31 thoughts from Thomas Paine
Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
7 quotes from Georges Bernanos
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
21 quotes from Anais Nin
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
4 more quotes from Brendan Behan
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.
8 other wisdom & wit from James Dean
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.
31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
32 other wisdom & wit from Michel de Montaigne
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
7 views from Buffalo Bill
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
6 sayings from Huey Newton
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
7 quotes from Walter Bagehot
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
19 wisdom & wit from Alfred North Whitehead
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
73 more quotes from Victor Hugo
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
16 sayings from Havelock Ellis
People living deeply have no fear of death.
21 quotes from Anais Nin
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
13 other quotes from Francois Rabelais
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
3 more quotes from David Sarnoff
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
14 other wisdom & wit from Jessica Savitch
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
21 thoughts from W. H. Auden
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
4 views from George Meredith
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
45 more wisdom & wit from John Ruskin
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
12 more thoughts from Julius Caesar
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
8 thoughts from Yitzhak Rabin
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
16 wisdom & wit from Michelangelo
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
18 quotes from Jean Paul
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.
17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
17 wisdom & wit from Tennessee Williams
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
9 views from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
12 views from Julius Caesar
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
16 other quotes from Michelangelo
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
105 thoughts from Albert Einstein
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
7 sayings from Gloria Swanson
Man always dies before he is fully born.
16 thoughts from Erich Fromm
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
17 other wisdom & wit from Tennessee Williams
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
9 views from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
18 other thoughts from Jean Paul
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
27 views from Leonardo da Vinci
Birth was the death of him.
4 views from Samuel Beckett
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
81 more quotes from William Shakespeare
Death is a fearful thing.
81 other quotes from William Shakespeare
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
5 other views from Charlotte Bronte
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
14 other sayings from Clarence Darrow
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
8 quotes from Thomas Hobbes
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
5 more quotes from Henry Fielding
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
18 more wisdom & wit from Emile M. Cioran
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
9 quotes from Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
10 other quotes from Henry James
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
11 wisdom & wit from Nicolas Chamfort
Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
16 thoughts from David Hume
Our life is made by the death of others.
27 more quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
18 views from Emile M. Cioran
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
27 wisdom & wit from Leonardo da Vinci
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.
12 thoughts from Thornton Wilder
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.
7 more sayings from James Anthony Froude
To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.
3 thoughts from John James Audubon
The valiant never taste of death but once.
81 other views from William Shakespeare
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
81 sayings from William Shakespeare
The sole equality on earth is death.
6 other quotes from Philip James Bailey
The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
14 other quotes from Vladimir Lenin
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
24 thoughts from Joseph Addison
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.
4 other thoughts from Florence Nightingale
The goal of all life is death.
26 other thoughts from Sigmund Freud
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
10 wisdom & wit from Wilson Mizner
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
22 quotes from Robert Browning
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
4 thoughts from Jose Ortega y Gasset
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
30 quotes from Walt Whitman
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
4 sayings from John Wayne
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
135 more thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
53 views from Honore de Balzac
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me liberty or give me death.
10 views from Patrick Henry
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
3 wisdom & wit from Fulton J. Sheen
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
10 other views from Patrick Henry
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
3 quotes from Jacqueline Cochran
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
30 sayings from Walt Whitman
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
3 views from Angela Carter
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
23 views from E. W. Howe
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
12 sayings from Marquis de Sade
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
11 thoughts from Thomas Mann
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
2 wisdom & wit from Errol Flynn
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
2 views from Joseph Hall
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
15 more quotes from Norman Cousins
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Each instant of life is a step toward death.
15 wisdom & wit from Pierre Corneille
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
11 thoughts from Thomas Mann
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
15 thoughts from Pierre Corneille
I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
14 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Hardy
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
8 quotes from Paul Lynde
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
11 more quotes from Thomas Mann
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
2 views from Anna Akhmatova
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
4 views from Rosalind Russell
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
18 sayings from Pearl S. Buck
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
58 other sayings from Henry Ward Beecher
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
57 views from Blaise Pascal
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
6 more thoughts from Ashley Montagu
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
11 sayings from Thomas Mann
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
8 views from Stokely Carmichael
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
15 quotes from Pierre Corneille
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
18 thoughts from Pearl S. Buck
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
7 views from Judy Garland
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
14 thoughts from Jean Anouilh
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
27 more wisdom & wit from Dave Barry
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
24 other quotes from Jean Cocteau
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
14 more quotes from Edward Young
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
27 more views from Dave Barry
To awake from death is to die in peace.
16 quotes from Douglas Horton
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.
8 quotes from Nathaniel Hawthorne
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
24 quotes from Jean Cocteau
As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
16 other quotes from Douglas Horton
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
16 quotes from Douglas Horton
Death is the final wake-up call.
16 views from Douglas Horton
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
7 wisdom & wit from Walter Benjamin
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
15 wisdom & wit from Jean de La Fontaine
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
13 other views from Dag Hammarskjold
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
6 quotes from Elias Canetti
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
24 wisdom & wit from Jean Cocteau
His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad.
5 quotes from Red Skelton
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
117 more views from Henry David Thoreau
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
13 sayings from Dag Hammarskjold
Inactivity is death.
8 other wisdom & wit from Benito Mussolini
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
31 wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
14 more thoughts from Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
14 quotes from Edward Young
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
115 views from George Bernard Shaw
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
6 thoughts from Hilaire Belloc
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
35 views from Ernest Hemingway
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
14 wisdom & wit from Edward Young
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
19 wisdom & wit from Carl Jung
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
8 more quotes from Mary Baker Eddy
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
24 more views from Jean Cocteau
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
24 quotes from Jean Cocteau
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
10 more quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
5 more quotes from Edna Ferber
Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
4 other wisdom & wit from Jerry Garcia
Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
17 thoughts from John Dryden
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted.
19 more quotes from Percy Bysshe Shelley
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
16 views from Coco Chanel
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
4 more quotes from Jerry Garcia
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
26 quotes from Jean de la Bruyere
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
50 other quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
7 more sayings from Jorge Luis Borges
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
5 more sayings from Edna Ferber
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
13 quotes from Herman Melville
You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
50 other sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
10 other views from Taylor Caldwell
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
21 quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
12 other quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
10 quotes from Robert Benchley
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
21 views from Leo Tolstoy
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
21 sayings from Leo Tolstoy
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
3 sayings from Bill Shankly
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
23 wisdom & wit from T. S. Eliot
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.
10 quotes from Robert Benchley
I'm working myself to death.
4 quotes from Alan Ladd
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
9 sayings from J. B. Priestley
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
12 thoughts from Miguel de Unamuno
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
12 more quotes from Miguel de Unamuno
Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states.
9 more wisdom & wit from Elizabeth I
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Normality is death.
26 quotes from Theodor Adorno
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
90 quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
90 other quotes from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
10 other wisdom & wit from Taylor Caldwell
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
63 more quotes from Samuel Johnson
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.
3 quotes from Bill Shankly
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.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
36 more views from Theodore Roosevelt
Biography lends to death a new terror.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
100 views from Oscar Wilde
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
16 more quotes from Wallace Stevens
Death, the final, triumphant lover.
6 more wisdom & wit from Bela Lugosi
Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.
2 other thoughts from Michael Collins
Failure too is a form of death.
11 quotes from Graham Greene
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
100 more thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
15 sayings from William Penn
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.
2 wisdom & wit from Leo Burnett
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
2 sayings from Stevie Ray Vaughan
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.
2 other quotes from Alfred Nobel
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
7 more sayings from Jean Giraudoux
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
9 quotes from Hannah Arendt
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
3 quotes from Daniel Boone
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
19 views from John Keats
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi
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.
103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
8 other sayings from Thomas Browne
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
100 thoughts from Oscar Wilde
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.
16 thoughts from Denis Diderot
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
2 more wisdom & wit from Peter Tosh
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
11 wisdom & wit from Graham Greene
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
8 sayings from Thomas Browne