967 private quotes tagged death

“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.” — Ron White

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“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.” — Tecumseh

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

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

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“Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.” — Elie Wiesel

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

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“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.” — Quintus Ennius

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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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“Death is a distant rumor to the young.” — Andy Rooney

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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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“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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“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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“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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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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“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.” — E. M. Forster

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“No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.” — Billy Graham

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“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.” — Katharine Hepburn

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“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.” — Elie Wiesel

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“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.” — Stewart Alsop

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“Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.” — Hannah Arendt

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“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.” — George Santayana

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“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.” — Huey Newton

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