Death Quotes - page 13

I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. View quote
Alexander Smith
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. View quote
Publilius Syrus
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. View quote
Walter Bagehot
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
And when all the world is overcharged with Inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is Warre, which provideth for every man, by Victory or Death. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
I look at Death Proof and realize I had too much time. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. View quote
Philip Massinger
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Sleep 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. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. (Helen Keller)
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end the fundamentalists, the beginning when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town. View quote
William Faulkner
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. View quote
John Wayne
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Death is better, a milder mover for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals. View quote
Aeschylus
Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof. View quote
Aeschylus
O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse. View quote
Aeschylus
Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death. View quote
Jonathan Swift
England awake awake awake Jerusalem thy sister calls Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls. View quote
William Blake
The only death I fear is dying ignorant. View quote
Steven Erikson
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. (Epicurus)
Sleep, the brother of death. View quote
Hesiod
To die is to become like a child, at last one knows nothing, nothing of death and nothing of life, only that all distances are equally long and all words unintelligible but beautiful. View quote
Stig Dagerman
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws. View quote
Jim Morrison
everything is ridiculous if one thinks of death. View quote
Thomas Bernhard