967 private quotes tagged death

“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 human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.” — Virgil

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“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.” — Emily Dickinson

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“I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” — Patrick Henry

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“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” — Robert M. Hutchins

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“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.” — Philip Johnson

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“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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“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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“He who doesn't fear death dies only once.” — Giovanni Falcone

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“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.” — T. D. Jakes

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“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike

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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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“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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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?” — Chuck Palahniuk

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

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

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

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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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“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.” — Damien Hirst

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

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