Death Quotes - page 15

If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front, where I had only two Romanian armies. Therefore, the resistance of the Sixth German Army, even to the death of the last man, was necessary. (Erich von Manstein)

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Erik Erikson

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

Gabriel García Márquez

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Eric Hoffer

To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.

Herbert Marcuse

My only fear of death is comin back to these streets reincarnated.

Tupac Shakur

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Walter Benjamin

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

Dave Barry

When beggars die, there are no comets seen The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

William Shakespeare

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot. (Sophocles)

Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

Sophocles

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

Rabindranath Tagore

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Mark Twain

On his deathbed Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuse are for all -- the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Mark Twain

The tempest was terrible and separated me from my other vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden access to the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain.

Christopher Columbus

Better be killed than frightened to death.

Robert Smith Surtees

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

Martin Bormann

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.

Tryon Edwards

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler)

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last.

Walter Scott

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into 3 classes those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death.

Winston Churchill

Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh.

Aldous Huxley

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

John Keats

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