967 private quotes tagged death

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.” — W.C. Fields

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“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” — Errol Flynn

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“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.” — Erik H. Erikson

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“Grumbling is the death of love.” — Marlene Dietrich

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“It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.” — Cate Blanchett

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“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.” — Ben Kingsley

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“Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?” — W.C. Fields

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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.” — Emily Dickinson

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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” — Isaac Asimov

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“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.” — Joseph Hall

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“Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.” — Alexander Smith

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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” — Alice Walker

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“Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.” — Ron Paul

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“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.” — James Dean

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“He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.” — Adam Clarke

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“John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.” — Maureen O'Hara

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“As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?” — Chanakya

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“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.” — Daniel Barenboim

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“In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.” — Abdul Kalam

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“Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.” — Bob Dylan

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“The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.” — Arlo Guthrie

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“Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.” — Heinrich Heine

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“Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.” — Yasser Arafat

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