Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dante Alighieri

These have not the hope to die.

Dan Simmons

Each heart has its graveyard, each household its dead, And knells ring around us wherever we tread, And the feet that awhile made our pathway so bright Pass on to a land that is out of our sight.

Cynthia Ozick

Whoever mourns the dead mourns himself.

Cynthia Ozick

Death persecutes before it executes.

Colonel Sanders

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

Cornelius Nepos

That evil can never be great which is the last.

Cornelius Nepos

So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another.

Cormac McCarthy

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

Cormac McCarthy

Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny.

Cormac McCarthy

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

Cormac McCarthy

They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck.

E. W. Howe

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

Dwight L. Moody

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

Dwight L. Moody

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

Dwight L. Moody

I find that many Christians are in trouble about the future; they think they will not have grace enough to die by. It is much more important that we should have grace enough to live by. It seems to me that death is of very little importance in the meantime. When the dying hour comes, there will be dying grace; but you do not require dying grace to live by.

Joel Salatin

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

Henry Fielding

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Lindsey Graham

The president of the United States let the consulate in Libya become a death trap.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Christopher Moore

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

Robert Kiyosaki

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

Bill Paxton

I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

Tennessee Williams

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Al Sharpton

My organization, National Action Network (NAN), was on the ground talking and meeting with people in Ferguson, just as we did in Staten Island following Eric Garner's death.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

What emotions would we experience if we weren't working ourselves to death? What wishes drive us? What fantasies hitch themselves to our continual busyness? Only when we step away from our frenzy can we know.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

Woody Allen

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

The only thing we can do in Delaware to keep the red knots from going into a death spiral is to make sure there are plenty of horseshoe-crab eggs.

This should have a significant impact on unnecessary porpoise and dolphin deaths,

The power of life and death is in the tongue,