967 private quotes tagged death

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.” — John Donne

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“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.” — Thomas Merton

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“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.” — John Keats

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“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.” — Norman Cousins

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“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.” — Pope John Paul II

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“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” — Joel Osteen

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“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.” — Juliette Binoche

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“She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.” — Margaret Sanger

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“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.” — Robert Browning

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“Death is a distant rumor to the young.” — Andy Rooney

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“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.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.” — Billy Graham

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“Life is but a moment, death also is but another.” — Robert H. Schuller

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“Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.” — John Cusack

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“Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.” — Ovid

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“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.” — Tecumseh

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“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.” — Ernst Moritz Arndt

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“The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.” — A. N. Wilson

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“I don't want to hear about my death.” — Oriana Fallaci

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“Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.” — Ron White

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“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.” — Robert Bolt

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“Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.” — Miyamoto Musashi

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