Death Quotes - page 11

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. (Stevie Ray Vaughan)

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Isaiah Berlin

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

Seneca

Routine is death to heroism.

P. G. Wodehouse

So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there.

John Dryden

Since every man who lives is born to die, And none can boast sincere felicity, With equal mind, what happens, let us bear, Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend The worlds an inn, and death the journeys end.

John Dryden

People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

Orson Scott Card

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Iris Murdoch

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Anaïs Nin

Knowledge by suffering entereth And Life is perfected by Death. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Guess now who holds thee' - Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang, . . . Not Death, but Love.'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I used to think that a man was sentenced to death or imprisonment because he was guilty; now I know that he is found guilty because he is disliked.

Lu Xun

How he lies in his rights of a man Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

Robert Browning

For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

Robert Browning

If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.

C. J. Cherryh

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

Ernest Hemingway

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see You hang around cafTs.

Ernest Hemingway

To the last moment of his breath, On hope the wretch relies And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

Oliver Goldsmith

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

Bohumil Hrabal

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. (Leo Buscaglia)

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Etherege

When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.

Ann Coulter

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

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