967 private quotes tagged death

“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?” — Barry Goldwater

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“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.” — Thomas Merton

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“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.” — John Keats

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“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.” — Virgil

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“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.” — John Steinbeck

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“I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.” — Jerry Garcia

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“It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.” — Epictetus

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“There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

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“When life is victorious, there is birth when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.” — Morihei Ueshiba

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“Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.” — John Keats

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“But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.” — Emma Thompson

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“Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'” — Bill Maher

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“Whether for life or death, do your own work well.” — John Ruskin

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“A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.” — Ovid

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“Life is but a moment, death also is but another.” — Robert H. Schuller

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

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“He who doesn't fear death dies only once.” — Giovanni Falcone

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“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.” — Philip Johnson

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“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.” — Miguel de Unamuno

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“The idea is to die young as late as possible.” — Ashley Montagu

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