967 private quotes tagged death

“Virtue alone has majesty in death.” — Edward Young

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“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.” — Simone de Beauvoir

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“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Norman Cousins

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“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.” — Judy Garland

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“Fling but a stone, the giant dies.” — Matthew Green

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“Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” — Susan Ertz

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“Death is the tyrant of the imagination.” — Barry Cornwall

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“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.” — Christopher Fry

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“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.” — Tupac Shakur

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“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.” — Euripides

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“I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.” — George Sewell

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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” — Edvard Munch

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“Give me liberty or give me death.” — Patrick Henry

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“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” — Clarence Darrow

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“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” — Joel Osteen

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“Death is the final wake-up call.” — Douglas Horton

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“Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.” — Paracelsus

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“Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.” — Kurt Cobain

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“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.” — Taylor Caldwell

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“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” — Anais Nin

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“Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.” — Abu Bakr

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