Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
Robert BoltDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel JohnsonIt’s a very sad day and the end of an era. [on the death of Robert Sangster]
Lester PiggottI know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick HenryDoing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry WallGrumbling is the death of love.
Marlene DietrichDespise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus AureliusCourage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John WayneIf life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
Samuel ButlerThe wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula PoundstoneWho can take
Death's portrait? The tyrant never sat
Edward YoungDeath is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored...
Herman MelvilleDeath is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not
EpicurusThere is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
René MaheuIt is an immense loss of a great comedian but more importantly a good friend [on the death of Dave Allen]
Jimmy TarbuckForsooth, 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 MorrisIt's always good beating the Australians - and it's even better to beat them out there. But the Ashes is just one thing. Ask me for the biggest highlight when I'm lying on my deathbed - then I'll tell you
Ian BothamI saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. (Journal)
George FoxI could have another moan but I'm sick to death of my own whingeing.
Steve BruceDeath is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.
Joseph StalinIf there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
Stevie SmithIn taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, 'until death doth part.'
Emma GoldmanI agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.
Tom StoppardDeath is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis BaconDeath comes as a heavy blow when, known too well to others, you die unknown to yourself.
Francis BaconDon'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 PowellMild disarray [on Labours election plans, following the death of the Pope]
Andrew MarrAnything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
Betty BenderI disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it (Attributed to Voltaire, but the words are in fact S.G. Tallentyre's summary of his attitude to Helvetius following the burning of the latter's De l'esprit in 1759)
VoltaireI think it is true what they say that retirement is the death of some people, so more and more people are choosing to do work of some sort when they have retired.
Anna HarrisonDeath's sting has a new meaning now that the Times of London is including candid descriptions of human peccadilloes in its obituaries.
Francis X ClinesA man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
Jesse JacksonHe has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
HoraceThis mourning deeply marks France as well as every French person who identifies with the message of the Catholic Church. [on the death of Pope John Paul II]
Jacques ChiracLife cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
Edna FerberI like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
Courtney LoveThe atmosphere is very strange for all of us. Germans and Italians feel very connected to the Pope, as many other countries do. [on the death of Pope John Paul II]
Michael SchumacherMy character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio NelsonNo one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
Hermann BrochThere was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.
Thomas CampbellThe creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the 'creative' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
Mary SartonSting! I mean, come on - who doesn't love Sting? Even if you love Megadeath, you have respect for Sting. If you love Pokemon, you'll find out who Sting is someday.
Jenna Elfman'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 GuavaraI am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
BhagavadgitaEvery one has before his eyes an end which he pursues till death; but for many that end is a feather which they blow before them in the air.
Robert NicollA humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.
Ramsey ClarkDeath cannot come
To him untimely who is fit to die;
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven;
The briefer life, the earlier immortality
H H MilmanThe Nemesis of excess in athletics is professionalism, which is the death of all true sport.
E N GardinerOh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
Francis BaconHer late husband, you know, a very sad death - eaten by missionaries - pour soul!
William Archibald Spooner
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