Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Nelson Mandela

There is no reason why sufferers should hide that they have been infected by this pandemic, ... when you keep quiet you are signing your own death warrant.

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,

There are less murders, less murder victims and less death sentences because, in our view, we have been giving this problem the right medicine.

We roughly have death rates that are about 150 percent higher in the United States for 15- to 19-year-old females and males than those nations that have the lowest rates.

We thought it was a suicide death machine. I thought someone was going to get killed.

P. J. O'Rourke

Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'

Nicolas Chamfort

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Paul Simon

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

Ram Dass

The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment.

We were very sorry to learn about the death of George Archer. He will sadly be missed. At this time, our thoughts are with the Archer family.

We were very sorry to learn about the death of George Archer.

When people think of death and dying issues, we want them to think of us,

Kurt Vonnegut

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

William Shakespeare

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come