Death Quotes - page 96

For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed. Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. (Seneca)
Pyrrhus: Mercy often means giving death, not life. View quote
Seneca
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown. View quote
Seneca
You see that man can endure toil: Cato, on foot, led an army through African deserts. You see that thirst can be endured: he marched over sun-baked hills, dragging the remains of a beaten army and with no train of supplies, undergoing lack of water and wearing a heavy suit of armour; always the last to drink of the few springs which they chanced to find. You see that honour, and dishonour too, can be despised: for they report that on the very day when Cato was defeated at the elections, he played a game of ball. You see also that man can be free from fear of those above him in rank: for Cato attacked Caesar and Pompey simultaneously, at a time when none dared fall foul of the one without endeavouring to oblige the other. You see that death can be scorned as well as exile: Cato inflicted exile upon himself and finally death, and war all the while. View quote
Seneca
No one ever saw Cato change, no matter how often the state changed: he kept himself the same in all circumstances-in the praetorship, in defeat, under accusation, in his province, on the platform, in the army, in death. View quote
Seneca
Do you desire another case? Take that of the younger Marcus Cato, with whom Fortune dealt in a more hostile and more persistent fashion. But he withstood her, on all occasions, and in his last moments, at the point of death, showed that a brave man can live in spite of Fortune, can die in spite of her. His whole life was passed either in civil warfare, or under a political regime which was soon to breed civil war. View quote
Seneca
Of all these experiences that seem so frightful, none is insuperable. Separate trials have been over- come by many: fire by Mucius, crucifixion by Regulus, poison by Socrates, exile by Rutilius, and a sword-inflicted death by Cato; therefore, let us also overcome something. View quote
Seneca
You will die, not because you are ill, but because you are alive; even when you have been cured, thesame end awaits you; when you have recovered, it will be not death, but ill health, that you have escaped. View quote
Seneca
Do you ask me whom I have conquered? Neither the Persians, nor the far-off Medes, nor any warlike race that lies beyond the Dahae; not these, but greed, ambition, and the fear of death that has conquered the conquerors of the world. View quote
Seneca
Great also are the souls of the defenders-men who know that, as long as the path to death lies open, the blockade is not complete, men who breathe their last in the arms of liberty. View quote
Seneca
You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere. (Seneca)
It was a great deed to conquer Carthage, but a greater deed to conquer death. View quote
Seneca
Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die. View quote
Seneca
Pain he endures, death he awaits. View quote
Seneca
There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death. View quote
Seneca
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. View quote
Seneca
Death is a release from and an end of all pains: beyond it our sufferings cannot extend: it restores us to the peaceful rest in which we lay before we were born. If anyone pities the dead, he ought also to pity those who have not been born. Death is neither a good nor a bad thing, for that alone which is something can be a good or a bad thing: but that which is nothing, and reduces all things to nothing, does not hand us over to either fortune, because good and bad require some material to work upon. Fortune cannot take ahold of that which Nature has let go, nor can a man be unhappy if he is nothing. View quote
Seneca
Courage leads to heaven fear, to death. View quote
Seneca
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned? View quote
Alan Moore
See they suffer death, But in their deaths remember they are men, Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. View quote
Joseph Addison
O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate; How can I see the gay, the brave, the young, Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung! In joys of conquest he resigns his breath, And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death. (Joseph Addison)
Death only closes a Man's Reputation, and determines it as good or bad. View quote
Joseph Addison
He had been to touch the great death, and found that, after all, it was but the great death. He was a man. View quote
Stephen Crane
Good jobs depend on sound tax policy. Last year, some in this hall thought my tax relief plan was too small; some thought it was too big. But when the checks arrived in the mail, most Americans thought tax relief was just about right. Congress listened to the people and responded by reducing tax rates, doubling the child credit, and ending the death tax. For the sake of long-term growth and to help Americans plan for the future, let's make these tax cuts permanent. View quote
George W. Bush
We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation. View quote
George W. Bush