Death Quotes - page 14

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. (Emily Dickinson)
A man must have something to grumble about; and if he can't complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness. View quote
Anne Brontë
There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death. View quote
Denis Diderot
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle. View quote
James Russell Lowell
A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death. View quote
William Wordsworth
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. View quote
Will Rogers
I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while Death thought about it Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. View quote
Patricia Hill Collins
The Supreme Court of the United States... has validated the Nazi method of execution in... concentration camps, starving them to death! View quote
Jack Kevorkian
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. View quote
Eugène Ionesco
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. (Robert G. Ingersoll)
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. View quote
Lewis Mumford
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Death is the possibility of the absolute impossibility of Dasein. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. View quote
Edward Young
We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault How few themselves in that just mirror see. View quote
Edward Young
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art. View quote
Paul Theroux
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again. View quote
Victor Hugo
To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death. View quote
Garrett Fort
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. View quote
Lord Byron
There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Death is terrible, but still more terrible is the feeling that you might live for ever and never die. View quote
Anton Chekhov
I believe that the unity of man as opposed to other living things derives from the fact that man is the conscious life of himself. Man is conscious of himself, of his future, which is death, of his smallness, of his impotence; he is aware of others as others; man is in nature, subject to its laws even if he transcends it with his thought. View quote
Erich Fromm