Death Quotes - page 10

Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. (Alexander Pope)
Is not absence death to those who love. View quote
Alexander Pope
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. View quote
Edmund Burke
Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain. View quote
Robert Jordan
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret. Oh death in life, the days that are no more. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, ''Go to sleep by yourselves.'' And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help. View quote
Margaret Mead
Tolkien made the wrong choice when he brought Gandalf back. Screw Gandalf. He had a great death and the characters should have had to go on without him. View quote
George R. R. Martin
To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege to omit it in old age, is to sleep At an attack. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. (Samuel Johnson)
Of Garrick's death That stroke of death, which has eclipsed the gaiety of nations and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time. View quote
George S. Patton
I began to regard the death and mangling of a couple thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dashand it may be well that we become so hardened. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. View quote
E. M. Forster
All true stories end in death. View quote
Matthew Stover
After the first death, there is no other. View quote
Dylan Thomas
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. (Emil Cioran)
I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. View quote
Nancy Reagan
Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. View quote
Steve Jobs
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to life. View quote
Cesare Pavese
And when I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me. View quote
Morrissey