Death Quotes - page 3

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. (Stendhal)
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. View quote
Michelangelo
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. View quote
Erich Fromm
A useless life is an early death. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. View quote
William Shakespeare
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. View quote
Mark Twain
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Is death the last step No, it is the final awakening. View quote
Walter Scott
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. (Al Capone)
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. View quote
Nelson Mandela
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The goal of all life is death. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. View quote
Larry Wall
The death of dogma is the birth of reality. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. View quote
Epictetus
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. (Marcus Aurelius)
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. View quote
Harriet Tubman
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death. View quote
Lena Horne
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. View quote
Horace Mann