Quotes about death
death 4th-of-july bad-ass
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr.
death brother grief
The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe. Marguerite Duras
death
Death doesn't frighten me. Princess Diana
death command dies
To die at the command of another is to die twice. Publilius Syrus
death children too-late
Death is fortunate for the child, bitter to the youth, too late to the old.
death almighty proof
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die. Joseph Brodsky
death men dying
A man's legacy is determined by how the story ends. Leonardo DiCaprio
death memories loss
Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life. Leonardo da Vinci
death wine mean
Alas, I am dying beyond my means. Oscar Wilde
death long lasts
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
death trials sentences
All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.
death art simple
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. Paul Rand
death design
Design is everything. Everything!
death children loss
If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
death wisdom country
In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat. Leon Trotsky
death government dying
During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers? P. J. O'Rourke
death grief funeral
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
death fathers-day children
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
death failure character
In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
death dying waste
Nothing ever truly dies. The universe wastes nothing, everything is simply transformed. Keanu Reeves
death bed said
Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free. Kingsley Amis
death dying young
Only the young die good. Oliver Herford
death distance friendly
Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance. Oliver Goldsmith
death lonely dark
The road to death is a lonely highway, and longer than it apears, even when it leads straight down from the scaffold, by way of a rope; and it's a dark road, with never any moon shining on it, to light your way. Margaret Atwood
death children home
No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.
death country immortality
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. Marcus Tullius Cicero
death courage men
For a courageous man cannot die dishonorably, a man who has attained the consulship cannot die before his time, a philosopher cannot die wretchedly.
death wish-to-die care
I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead. [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]
death extinction lasts
The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]
death home inns
I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]
death meditation philosopher
The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.
death men complaining
Some men make a womanish complaint that it is a great misfortune to die before our time. I would ask what time? Is it that of Nature? But she, indeed, has lent us life, as we do a sum of money, only no certain day is fixed for payment. What reason then to complain if she demands it at pleasure, since it was on this condition that you received it.
death men glory
Death is dreadful to the man whose all is extinguished with his life; but not to him whose glory never can die.