Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao TzuNeither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
Duc De La RochefoucauldToo many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.
James F ByrnesArt has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John
Boris PasternakOh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
Francis BaconDemocracy is the most vile form of government... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
James MadisonWho can take
Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat
Edward YoungSome people think football is a matter of life and death.... I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
In Sunday Times 4 October 1981Bill ShanklyHere lies a king, that ruled as he thought fit
The universal monarchy of wit (An Elegy upon the Death of Dr John Donne)
Thomas CarewWaldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death (Beasts and super-Beasts)
SakiJust like Eric Morecambe, you feel like you've lost a dear friend [on the death of Ronnie Barker]
Peter KayLife is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice WalkerRome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
Thomas HuxleyAll interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life
Thomas MannHumanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul III was deeply saddened by the death of Pope John Paul II.
Quite apart from his role as a spiritual guide to more than a billion men, women and children, he was a tireless advocate of peace, a true pioneer in interfaith dialogue and a strong force for critical self-evaluation by the Church itself.
[on Pope John Paul II]
Kofi AnnanHealthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik EriksonForsooth, brethren, fellowship is heaven and lack of fellowship is hell; fellowship is life and lack of fellowship is death; and the deeds that ye do upon the earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
William MorrisHer late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - pour soul!
William Archibald SpoonerHockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
Stephen Butler LeacockLiterally, the society we humans have set up and perpetuate brings about not only the suffering of some people, it can exat an incalculable cost - untimely death.
Jason MercheyHow wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyA fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan SontagDon't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.
Colin PowellWe will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
John BaconWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandTo run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
AristotleDeath is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
Joseph StalinCowards die many times before their deaths; The valient never taste of death but once.
William ShakespeareReflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.
Blaise PascalAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo Da VinciNothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.
Seth LloydOur fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSo dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
John MiltonJournalist: 'Have you received any death threats?' Harry Redknapp: 'Only from the wife when I didn't do the washing up!'
Harry RedknappI knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
Roger AngellGolf is a game to be played between cricket and death.
Colin Ingleby-McKenzieWell, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win! [after announcing the death of Pope Paul VI, 1978]
Phil RizzutoWe are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Graham GreeneAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerI admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers. [on the death of Robin Cook]
Gordon BrownThirst of wealth no quiet knows,
But near the death-bed fierce grows.
Anne FinchBest while you have it use your breath,
There is no drinking after death. (The Bloody Brother)
John FletcherWe have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II]
Mahmoud AbbasDeath is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.
W H AudenDeath and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven
MichelangeloBeing an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna FerberIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus'It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory.'
Che GuavaraLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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