967 private quotes tagged death

“The goal of all life is death.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.” — Steve Jobs

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“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.” — Voltaire

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“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.” — Joseph Stalin

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“Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.” — Albert Camus

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“Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.” — Voltaire

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“I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.” — Paulo Coelho

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“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.” — Plato

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“I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” — Mark Twain

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“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.” — Stephen Hawking

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“For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.” — Johnny Carson

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“On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The valiant never taste of death but once.” — William Shakespeare

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“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.” — Yogi Berra

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#Quotations

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“The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” — Steve Jobs

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“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.” — Albert Einstein

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“Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.” — Albert Camus

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“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.” — Elbert Hubbard

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