Death Quotes - page 9

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. (James Thurber)
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. View quote
James Thurber
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope. View quote
William Hazlitt
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. View quote
Graham Greene
Our nature consists in movement absolute rest is death. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. View quote
Blaise Pascal
And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go. View quote
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Science without conscience is the death of the soul. View quote
François Rabelais
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. (Henry David Thoreau)
Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear. View quote
Shirin Ebadi
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. View quote
George Eliot
I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. View quote
Harry Blackmun
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. View quote
Ayn Rand
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer (shatterer) of worlds. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Security is a kind of death. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. View quote
Norman Cousins
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. View quote
John Donne
Death is a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
There is no death What seems so is transition This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Life is real Life is earnest And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. View quote
Viktor Frankl