The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. - Maxims
Publilius SyrusI like death. I'm a big fan of it.
Guy RitchiePerhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
James BaldwinGrief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
Jean De La BruyereNo man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were; 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. (Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions)
John DonneI 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 HarrisonMelbourne is the kind of town that really makes you consider the question 'Is there life after death?'
Bette MidlerDying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing - a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
George Bernard ShawOn the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.
Woody AllenI 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 FoxWe are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
Graham GreeneAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo Da VinciThe longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
Sir Thomas Bowell BuxtonIn the last couple of days before the deadline was extended I would have said it was in the death throes and time for the last rites. Now it is on life support with a bit of blinking going on [On Channel 4 racing]
John McCririckMen, I'm getting out of Rome. Anyone who wants to carry on the war against the outsiders, come with me. I can offer you neither honours nor wages; I offer you hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Anyone who loves his country, follow me
Giuseppe GaribaldiSting! 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 ElfmanWhat pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
Susan SontagI know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
Patrick HenryI balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
W B YeatsA fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan SontagThe angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.
John BrightMendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other.
Tennessee WilliamsMaking a discovery may never come or it may take a long time and only come to fruition after your death - it is a privilege to make a real difference in your own life time.
Edward JennerIf we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
Alphonse KarrLight for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
Dwight MoodyLove is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
Emily DickinsonIf you're forced to the decision between death or surrendering your honour to live and raise your children, choose death. If you surrender your honour, you won't be fit to raise children.
John A MarshallBest while you have it use your breath,
There is no drinking after death. (The Bloody Brother)
John FletcherI think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems [of death]
Clive BarkerThere was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time.
Thomas CampbellCelebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
Glenn CloseCongratulations on your appointment. I have watched the careers of all your
predecessors and I am certain you will die a lonely death and be buried in a traitor's grave [the first email he is said to have received upon his appointment]
Jim MurphyLovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander ChaseDeath is the privilege of human nature,
And life without it were not worth our taking.
Nicholas RoweWe 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 AbbasTo me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed [very cheerful!]
Jim JonesDeath 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 MilmanI will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more deaths after the war than during the [Iraq] war.
Jose Luis Rodriguez ZapateroDoing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry WallAll interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life
Thomas MannEvery parting is a foretaste of death,
and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
Arthur SchopenhauerCourage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John WayneBirth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
Mahatma GandhiThis is the most obscene remark made by a senior politician in recent years and signals a shift to the right of terrifying proportions. If the death penalty had been in place for the last 30 years, dozens of people, who were later proved innocent, would have been killed. [In response to a Tory MP speaking in favour of the death penalty]
Mark OatenTo 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 not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less
William J BrennanGrumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich(Of his own death) - so here it is at last, the distinguished thing
Henry JamesIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EpicurusSleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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