967 private quotes tagged death

“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.” — Herodotus

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“As long as you have capital punishment there is no guarantee that innocent people won't be put to death.” — Paul Simon

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“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.” — Giuseppe Garibaldi

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“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.” — Joseph Addison

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“What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?” — Jessica Savitch

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“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.” — Hermann Hesse

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“Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.” — Bodhidharma

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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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“The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.” — Jean Cocteau

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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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“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.” — Seneca

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“Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.” — Gertrude Stein

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“The darkness of death is like the evening twilight it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.” — Jean Paul

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“I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy

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

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“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.” — Florence Nightingale

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“The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.” — Emile M. Cioran

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“After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.” — Jean Cocteau

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“I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.” — Quentin Tarantino

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“I am not the born how can there be either birth or death for me?” — Guru Nanak

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“If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.” — Marilyn Manson

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

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