death
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 quotes from James Anthony Froude
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
18 quotes from Emile M. Cioran
The valiant never taste of death but once.
81 quotes from William Shakespeare
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
81 other views from William Shakespeare
The sole equality on earth is death.
6 more quotes from Philip James Bailey
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 government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.
14 other sayings from Vladimir Lenin
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 quotes from Thornton Wilder
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
27 more thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci
Birth was the death of him.
4 other thoughts from Samuel Beckett
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.
81 other wisdom & wit from William Shakespeare
Death is a fearful thing.
81 more views from William Shakespeare
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
5 other thoughts from Charlotte Bronte
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
14 more 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 thoughts from Thomas Hobbes
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
81 views from William Shakespeare
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
41 more thoughts from Marcus Aurelius
It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
5 quotes from Henry Fielding
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
18 quotes 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 sayings from Henry James
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
11 thoughts 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 views from David Hume
Our life is made by the death of others.
27 other quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.
22 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
4 sayings 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 other quotes from John Wayne
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
35 sayings from Rabindranath Tagore
Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.
53 other quotes from Honore de Balzac
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me liberty or give me death.
10 quotes from Patrick Henry
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
3 more thoughts from Fulton J. Sheen
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
10 thoughts from Patrick Henry
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
3 other views from Jacqueline Cochran
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
30 wisdom & wit from Walt Whitman
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
3 thoughts from Angela Carter
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
23 more quotes from E. W. Howe
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
10 quotes from Wilson Mizner
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 sayings from Florence Nightingale
The goal of all life is death.
26 wisdom & wit from Sigmund Freud
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
24 other views from Joseph Addison
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
6 views from Ashley Montagu
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 quotes from Jean Anouilh
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
11 other quotes from Thomas Mann
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
18 more views from Pearl S. Buck
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
8 other wisdom & wit from Stokely Carmichael
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.
15 more wisdom & wit from Pierre Corneille
'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.
12 quotes from Marquis de Sade
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
11 quotes from Thomas Mann
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
2 other wisdom & wit from Errol Flynn
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
2 thoughts from Joseph Hall
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
15 quotes from Norman Cousins
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
59 sayings 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 more views from Thomas Mann
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.
15 more 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 views 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 thoughts from Thomas Mann
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.
2 more sayings from Anna Akhmatova
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.
4 quotes from Rosalind Russell
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
18 wisdom & wit from Pearl S. Buck
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
59 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
57 more quotes 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
After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
24 wisdom & wit 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 more sayings from Douglas Horton
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
16 quotes from Douglas Horton
Death is the final wake-up call.
16 more sayings from Douglas Horton
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
7 thoughts 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 quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
35 more wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.
6 more sayings from Elias Canetti
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
24 thoughts 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 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.
12 other wisdom & wit from Julius Caesar
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
13 quotes from Dag Hammarskjold
Inactivity is death.
8 thoughts from Benito Mussolini
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
31 more wisdom & wit from Eric Hoffer
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
14 other wisdom & wit from Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
14 sayings from Edward Young
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
6 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from Ernest Hemingway
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
14 views from Edward Young
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
19 views from Carl Jung
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
8 sayings from Mary Baker Eddy
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
24 quotes from Jean Cocteau
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
Virtue alone has majesty in death.
14 views from Edward Young
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
27 other sayings from Dave Barry
To awake from death is to die in peace.
16 quotes from Douglas Horton
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.
12 quotes from Julius Caesar
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.
24 sayings from Jean Cocteau
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
27 quotes from Dave Barry
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
24 views from Jean Cocteau
You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
50 other thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
10 sayings from Maurice Maeterlinck
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
5 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 quotes from Jerry Garcia
Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
17 quotes from John Dryden
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
50 more views 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 quotes from Coco Chanel
I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.
4 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 more wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
7 more quotes 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 views 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 other wisdom & wit from Herman Melville
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
12 more 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 more 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 other sayings from Leo Tolstoy
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
63 quotes from Samuel Johnson
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
21 views from Leo Tolstoy
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.
3 other thoughts 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 more quotes from Robert Benchley
I'm working myself to death.
4 sayings 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 other thoughts from J. B. Priestley
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
12 other wisdom & wit from Miguel de Unamuno
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
12 more sayings 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 quotes from Elizabeth I
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
90 wisdom & wit from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Normality is death.
26 thoughts 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 thoughts from Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.
10 quotes 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 more views from Bill Shankly
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.
21 other quotes from Miguel de Cervantes
Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
10 more quotes from Taylor Caldwell
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
33 more thoughts from Dwight D. Eisenhower
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 quotes from Thomas Browne
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.
2 thoughts from Peter Tosh
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 other sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
36 wisdom & wit from Theodore Roosevelt
Biography lends to death a new terror.
100 other thoughts from Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
100 sayings 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 other quotes from Bela Lugosi
Early this morning, I signed my death warrant.
2 quotes from Michael Collins
Failure too is a form of death.
11 other thoughts 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 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
15 quotes 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 sayings from Leo Burnett
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
2 more wisdom & wit 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 more thoughts 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Daniel Boone
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
19 quotes from John Keats
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
100 quotes 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 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.
8 quotes from Thomas Browne
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
100 more quotes 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 other quotes from Denis Diderot
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
103 other thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
12 quotes from William Cowper
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
32 other quotes 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 thoughts from George Eliot
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
3 other quotes 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 more quotes from Anne Sexton
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
98 thoughts from Mark Twain
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
9 more wisdom & wit from Pope John XXIII
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
98 views 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 more thoughts 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 other wisdom & wit from Hedy Lamarr
In every parting there is an image of death.
52 thoughts 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 views from Voltaire
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
52 more sayings 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 sayings 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 other sayings from Laurence Sterne
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
11 more wisdom & wit from Henry Van Dyke
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
29 more sayings from Friedrich Schiller
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
52 quotes from George Eliot
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 thoughts from Henry Van Dyke
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
98 views from Mark Twain
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
52 other quotes from George Eliot
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
98 more thoughts from Mark Twain
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 more quotes from Voltaire
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.
52 more quotes from Albert Camus
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 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
5 other quotes from Albert Pike
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
46 views from George Santayana
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.
17 other thoughts from Sammy Davis, Jr.
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
7 quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
23 other wisdom & wit from Henry Miller
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
10 quotes from Marlene Dietrich
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
11 other wisdom & wit from Joseph Stalin
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
30 more quotes 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 quotes from Jean Racine
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
26 quotes from Emily Dickinson
Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
14 sayings from Heinrich Heine
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
68 more views from Samuel Butler
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
5 other quotes from John Milton
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
11 more quotes from Joseph Stalin
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
6 thoughts from Alexander Smith
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
14 views from Jim Morrison
Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.
11 quotes from Joseph Stalin
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
7 thoughts 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 other quotes from George Santayana
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
7 other wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from George MacDonald
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
9 other 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 sayings from Samuel Butler
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
26 more quotes from Emily Dickinson
My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
5 more views from Jean Racine
One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.
11 other quotes from Joseph Stalin
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
7 views from Edvard Munch
Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
14 sayings from Heinrich Heine
Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.
14 sayings from Heinrich Heine
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
5 sayings from George Whitefield
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
14 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 quotes from William Lloyd Garrison
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
36 more quotes from Lord Byron
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
41 other quotes 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 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 more quotes 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 other sayings from John Donne
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?
13 sayings from Chanakya
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
21 other wisdom & wit from Abu Bakr
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
26 other sayings from E. M. Forster
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
11 quotes from Epicurus
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 wisdom & wit from W. Somerset Maugham
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
21 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 thoughts from Khalil Gibran
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
36 quotes from Lord Byron
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
24 sayings from W. C. Fields
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
8 wisdom & wit from Tryon Edwards
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
56 other thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from William Wycherley
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
67 other quotes from Francis Bacon
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin
I saw few die of hunger of eating, a hundred thousand.
96 other wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 thoughts from Douglas MacArthur
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
56 sayings from Khalil Gibran
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
3 thoughts from Alfred Russel Wallace
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
96 views from Benjamin Franklin
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
11 quotes from Epicurus
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
16 other sayings 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 other wisdom & wit from Francis Bacon
Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.
14 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 thoughts from Edith Wharton
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
7 more thoughts 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 sayings 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 quotes 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 quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
24 more thoughts from W. C. Fields
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.
17 views from Friedrich Durrenmatt
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
19 other quotes from Edgar Allan Poe
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
12 thoughts from Zora Neale Hurston
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 wisdom & wit from Tryon Edwards
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
14 other wisdom & wit from Charles de Montesquieu
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
26 more quotes from E. M. Forster
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?
14 wisdom & wit from Jessica Savitch
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
45 sayings from John Ruskin
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
3 quotes from David Sarnoff
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
4 thoughts from George Meredith
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
21 other quotes from W. H. Auden
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
24 quotes from Ayn Rand
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
29 more wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
5 more quotes from Omar N. Bradley
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.
3 sayings from Jeanne Calment
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
24 sayings from James Russell Lowell
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
21 more quotes from W. H. Auden
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
8 more wisdom & wit from Dwight L. Moody
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
32 more sayings 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 quotes 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 quotes from Thomas Paine
Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
7 other quotes from Georges Bernanos
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
21 sayings 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 views 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 more thoughts 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 other quotes from Gertrude Stein
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
32 quotes from Michel de Montaigne
My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.
7 sayings from Buffalo Bill
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
6 thoughts from Huey Newton
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
7 views from Walter Bagehot
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
19 sayings from Alfred North Whitehead
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
73 quotes from Victor Hugo
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
16 more quotes from Havelock Ellis
People living deeply have no fear of death.
21 more quotes from Anais Nin
Science without conscience is the death of the soul.
13 sayings from Francois Rabelais
The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
32 other quotes from Michel de Montaigne
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
16 other thoughts from Michelangelo
Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.
18 views 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 wisdom & wit from Leo Buscaglia
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
17 other thoughts from Tennessee Williams
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
9 wisdom & wit from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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 quotes from Michelangelo
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
7 quotes from Gloria Swanson
Man always dies before he is fully born.
16 wisdom & wit from Erich Fromm
Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
17 quotes from Tennessee Williams
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
9 other views from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
105 more quotes from Albert Einstein
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.
8 views from Yitzhak Rabin
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
18 quotes from Jean Paul