Death Quotes - page 7

Desire is half of life indifference is half of death. (Kahlil Gibran)
I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore. (L'Express newspaper 2000) View quote
Robert Smith (musician)
Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. View quote
Herman Melville
Less base the fear of death than fear of life. View quote
Edward Young
Virtue alone has majesty in death. View quote
Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. View quote
Edward Young
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender. (Tupac Shakur)
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. View quote
Dave Barry
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. View quote
Paul Kurtz
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
The fountain of death makes the still waters of life play. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. View quote
Mark Twain
To die for one's country is such a worthy fate That all compete for so beautiful a death. View quote
Pierre Corneille
He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. (Pierre Corneille)
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. View quote
Pearl S. Buck