Quotes about death
death 4th-of-july bad-ass
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr.
death
Death doesn't frighten me. Princess Diana
death command dies
To die at the command of another is to die twice. Publilius Syrus
death children too-late
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
death-penalty sentences death-sentence
The death sentence is a barbaric act. Nelson Mandela
death bed said
Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free. Kingsley Amis
death dying young
Only the young die good. Oliver Herford
death distance friendly
Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance. Oliver Goldsmith
death lonely dark
The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a dark road, with never any moon shining on it, to light your way. Margaret Atwood
death children home
No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.
death country immortality
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. Marcus Tullius Cicero
death courage men
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.
death wish-to-die care
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
death extinction lasts
The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]
death home inns
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
death meditation philosopher
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
death men complaining
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.
death men glory
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.
death home quitting
I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.
death home sight
The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.
death roots soul
There is, I know not how, a certain presage, as it were, of a future existence; and this takes the deepest root, and is most discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls.
death regret home
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
death memories grieving
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
death running men
Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death. Mark Twain
death lovely
How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.
death inspiration misquoting
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
death exaggeration-is exaggerated
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
death real graves
No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.
death religious atheist
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
death motivational-sports fear
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
death thinking self
I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.
death suicide religious
I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.
death suicide inspiration
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.