Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbert Hoover

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

Henry Miller

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

Henry Miller

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Henry Miller

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Henry Miller

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

Helen Keller

Death is no more than passing from one room into another.

Helen Keller

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.

Helen Keller

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

Helen Keller

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

George Eliot

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

George Eliot

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

George Eliot

The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.

George Eliot

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It is as if life were not sacred too, as if it were comparatively a small thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother or sister who has to climb the whole toilsome mountain with us. It seems as if all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey.

George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

Bill Richardson

devastated by the ravages and terror of human smuggling, drug smuggling, kidnapping, murder, destruction of property and death of livestock.

Any kind of death sentence is cruel. It doesn't matter what kind of death, I think the psychological punishment of knowing you're going to die is cruel.

Janet Reno

a sentence of death is justified, and the United States will seek the death penalty.

Ryan Holmes

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

Praise the virtues of fearlessness. A truly fearless person embraces even death without any kind of hesitation.

put to death in such a barbaric fashion.

Rate hikes don't have to mean the death knell for tech spending. Fundamentals are still strong.

Our department is now investigating another 980 deaths of young gang members.

Sherwin B. Nuland

Our deaths become a part of our lives in the sense that with our deaths we give something to those who are left behind, as we have given our lives to them.

People are worried sick. Death now comes on very, very short notice.

People come, people go. Life melts like snow. From the Earth below, to Heaven it goes...

J. K. Rowling

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

After my wife's death I was totally devastated and hardly left the house for 2 1/2 years.

Bill Gates

Deaths from malaria have doubled over the last 20 years,

Deaths and injuries from the holiday celebrations had exceeded the wildest prophecies, he noticed,

Death may indeed be final but the love we share while living is eternal.

Death is what he wants and what he'll get only if you accommodate him.

John Banville

Death is such a strange thing. One minute you're here and then just gone. You'd think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go.

Death is still working like a mole, / And digs my grave at each remove.