The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein
Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'. 12 views from Julius Caesar
We do not celebrate the death of our enemies. 8 more quotes from Yitzhak Rabin
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 more thoughts 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 sayings from Leo Buscaglia
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them. 17 quotes from Tennessee Williams
For tis not in mere death that men die most. 9 quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. 12 other quotes 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 quotes from Michelangelo
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein
Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. 7 more 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 wisdom & wit from Tennessee Williams
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. 9 more sayings from Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying. 18 thoughts from Jean Paul
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. 27 other quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Birth was the death of him. 4 quotes from Samuel Beckett
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once. 81 more views from William Shakespeare
Death is a fearful thing. 81 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 more wisdom & wit from Marcus Aurelius
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. 5 more views from Charlotte Bronte
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. 14 more quotes 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 other wisdom & wit 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 views from Henry Fielding
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. 18 thoughts from Emile M. Cioran
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. 9 more quotes from Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a predicament which precedes death. 10 views from Henry James
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. 11 more sayings 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 more views from Leonardo da Vinci
The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. 18 other thoughts from Emile M. Cioran
To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art. 3 wisdom & wit from John James Audubon
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 quotes from James Anthony Froude
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. 27 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Thornton Wilder
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 quotes from William Shakespeare
The sole equality on earth is death. 6 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 wisdom & wit from Vladimir Lenin
Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. 10 quotes from Wilson Mizner
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. 24 views from Joseph Addison
The goal of all life is death. 26 views from Sigmund Freud
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 wisdom & wit from Florence Nightingale
A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. 22 views from Robert Browning
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. 4 quotes from Jose Ortega y Gasset
And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death. 30 sayings from Walt Whitman
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway. 4 other thoughts from John Wayne
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. 35 more wisdom & wit from Rabindranath Tagore
Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling. 53 sayings from Honore de Balzac
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain. 135 other thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me liberty or give me death. 10 other quotes from Patrick Henry
Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. 3 quotes from Fulton J. Sheen
I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. 10 wisdom & wit from Patrick Henry
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. 3 sayings 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 more quotes from Angela Carter
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. 23 other 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 thoughts from Marquis de Sade
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. 11 more wisdom & wit from Thomas Mann
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. 2 thoughts from Errol Flynn
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. 2 quotes from Joseph Hall
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. 15 other thoughts from Norman Cousins
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. 59 thoughts from Elbert Hubbard
Each instant of life is a step toward death. 15 other quotes from Pierre Corneille
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts. 11 wisdom & wit from Thomas Mann
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. 15 quotes 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 other sayings from Thomas Hardy
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death. 8 more views from Paul Lynde
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. 11 other views from Thomas Mann
It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. 2 other wisdom & wit from Anna Akhmatova
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. 4 wisdom & wit from Rosalind Russell
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. 18 views from Pearl S. Buck
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. 59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. 58 thoughts from Henry Ward Beecher
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death. 57 quotes from Blaise Pascal
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. 57 views from Blaise Pascal
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. 11 sayings from Thomas Mann
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 sayings from Pearl S. Buck
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. 14 other quotes from Jean Anouilh
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. 7 other quotes from Judy Garland
The idea is to die young as late as possible. 6 sayings from Ashley Montagu
We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle. 8 views from Stokely Carmichael
Virtue alone has majesty in death. 14 quotes from Edward Young
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
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. 27 other quotes 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
To awake from death is to die in peace. 16 more quotes from Douglas Horton
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. 27 other wisdom & wit from Dave Barry
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 quotes from Douglas Horton
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. 7 quotes from Walter Benjamin
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. 15 other sayings from Jean de La Fontaine
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. 13 more views from Dag Hammarskjold
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. 35 more quotes from Ernest Hemingway
He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. 6 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 more sayings 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 other thoughts 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 views from Dag Hammarskjold
Inactivity is death. 8 quotes from Benito Mussolini
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living. 31 thoughts from Eric Hoffer
Less base the fear of death than fear of life. 14 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 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. 6 other quotes 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 thoughts from Ernest Hemingway
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire. 14 more thoughts from Edward Young
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. 19 more wisdom & wit from Carl Jung
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. 8 thoughts from Mary Baker Eddy
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. 24 other sayings 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 quotes from Maurice Maeterlinck
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. 5 views 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 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 thoughts from Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is the veil which those who live call life They sleep, and it is lifted. 19 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Jerry Garcia
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. 26 other wisdom & wit from Jean de la Bruyere
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. 50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Life and death have been lacking in my life. 7 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 sayings from Herman Melville
You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. 50 other wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit 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 sayings 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 quotes from Leo Tolstoy
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. 63 sayings from Samuel Johnson
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. 21 other wisdom & wit from Leo Tolstoy
Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important. 3 wisdom & wit from Bill Shankly
I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. 23 quotes from T. S. Eliot
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. 10 more wisdom & wit from Robert Benchley
I'm working myself to death. 4 thoughts 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 quotes 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 views 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 other 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 thoughts from Taylor Caldwell
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. 63 other views 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 other 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 more wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. 100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde
Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. 16 views from Wallace Stevens
Death, the final, triumphant lover. 6 quotes from Bela Lugosi
Early this morning, I signed my death warrant. 2 more quotes 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 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. 15 more wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Leo Burnett
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. 2 more quotes 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 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 other quotes from Jean Giraudoux
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. 9 more quotes from Hannah Arendt
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death. 3 more views from Daniel Boone
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever. 19 other 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 views from Denis Diderot
The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.' 103 views 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 thoughts from Dwight D. Eisenhower
To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. 2 more quotes from Peter Tosh
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. 8 views from Thomas Browne
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. 11 more quotes from Graham Greene
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 other views 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 quotes from Voltaire
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. 52 more quotes from George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. 52 more 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 views 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 quotes from Albert Camus
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. 98 quotes from Mark Twain
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 more quotes from George Eliot
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. 3 more wisdom & wit from Barry Cornwall
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew. 3 quotes from Ivan Turgenev
Death's in the good-bye. 2 sayings from Anne Sexton
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. 98 sayings from Mark Twain
I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. 9 wisdom & wit from Pope John XXIII
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. 98 other quotes 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 quotes 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 more sayings from Hedy Lamarr
In every parting there is an image of death. 52 more quotes 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 sayings from Voltaire
Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death. 52 wisdom & wit 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 quotes 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 quotes from Laurence Sterne
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. 11 wisdom & wit 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 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 more sayings from Jean Racine
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. 26 sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. 5 other wisdom & wit from John Milton
Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem. 11 quotes from Joseph Stalin
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. 6 quotes 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 views from Joseph Stalin
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life. 7 sayings from Edvard Munch
Everything that gets born dies. 2 views from Morrie Schwartz
For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep. 46 other sayings from George Santayana
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. 7 more views from Edvard Munch
Grumbling is the death of love. 10 wisdom & wit from Marlene Dietrich
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. 12 quotes from George MacDonald
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. 9 quotes from Willa Cather
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. 68 other quotes from Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. 68 more views from Samuel Butler
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath. 26 views 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 thoughts from Edvard Munch
Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. 14 other quotes 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 thoughts from George Whitefield
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. 14 more views from Jim Morrison
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. 4 other quotes from William Lloyd Garrison
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic. 11 thoughts from Joseph Stalin
To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death. 17 other views from Sammy Davis, Jr.
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 quotes from Henry Miller
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. 46 more wisdom & wit from George Santayana
To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. 68 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. 10 other views from Marlene Dietrich
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. 5 sayings from Albert Pike
There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. 68 thoughts from Samuel Butler
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. 68 sayings from Samuel Butler
When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. 7 quotes from John Greenleaf Whittier
When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words. 17 sayings from Friedrich Durrenmatt
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. 24 other thoughts 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 thoughts from E. M. Forster
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 views from Tryon Edwards
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. 14 other sayings from Charles de Montesquieu
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. 36 thoughts from Lord Byron
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. 41 other wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 sayings from John Donne
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. 21 quotes from Abu Bakr
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him. 26 other quotes 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 quotes 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 quotes from W. Somerset Maugham
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it. 21 other wisdom & wit 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 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 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 quotes from Tryon Edwards
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran
Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. 21 more wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 more 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 wisdom & wit from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it. 14 thoughts 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 sayings from Douglas MacArthur
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. 56 views from Khalil Gibran
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. 3 sayings from Alfred Russel Wallace
In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. 96 other views from Benjamin Franklin
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. 16 more wisdom & wit 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 thoughts 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 views from Edith Wharton
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. 7 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 views 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
The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world. 19 sayings from Edgar Allan Poe
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. 24 sayings from Ayn Rand
After your death you will be what you were before your birth. 29 wisdom & wit from Arthur Schopenhauer
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. 5 wisdom & wit from Omar N. Bradley
Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life. 3 other views from Jeanne Calment
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. 24 more sayings 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 other sayings from Dwight L. Moody
Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. 32 views 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 more 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 more sayings 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 more thoughts 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 views 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 thoughts from Gertrude Stein
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me. 32 more 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 quotes from Huey Newton
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. 7 other quotes from Walter Bagehot
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. 19 more quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. 73 more wisdom & wit from Victor Hugo
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. 16 wisdom & wit from Havelock Ellis
People living deeply have no fear of death. 21 thoughts from Anais Nin
Science without conscience is the death of the soul. 13 views 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 thoughts 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 more quotes from Jessica Savitch
Whether for life or death, do your own work well. 45 more quotes from John Ruskin
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. 4 quotes from George Meredith
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. 21 sayings from W. H. Auden