Death Quotes - page 12

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
I disagree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Sometimes the early bird gets the worm, but sometimes the early bird gets frozen to death. View quote
Myron Scholes
life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis. View quote
E. E. Cummings
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
Oscar Wilde
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death. View quote
Oscar Wilde
That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. View quote
Don DeLillo
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it. View quote
Don DeLillo
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. View quote
Don DeLillo
The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. View quote
Davy Crockett
Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. (Saki)
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! View quote
Patrick Henry
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! View quote
Patrick Henry
Death hath so many doors to let out life. View quote
John Fletcher
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning. View quote
John Banville
Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. View quote
Thomas Browne
Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God. View quote
Thomas Browne
What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death? View quote
James Clavell
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. View quote
Paula Poundstone
Death is always and under all circumtances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one. (Theodore Roosevelt)
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - That myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - That hope always triumphs over experience - That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. View quote
Robert Fulghum
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free. View quote
Bill Hicks
The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison