967 private quotes tagged death

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

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“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

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

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“Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.” — Xun Zi

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

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“So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.” — Buffalo Bill

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“Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.” — Al Goldstein

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

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“Over the past 50 years we got versions of X-ray specs and space vacations, and even death rays. But the X-ray specs don't fit on your face - they're big things that screen your luggage for guns. Space vacations are real, but they cost $20 million. We have death rays, but you have to be a triple Ph.D. to play with them.” — Daniel H. Wilson

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“The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.” — Cynthia McKinney

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

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

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

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

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“Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.” — John Wayne

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“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.” — Ernst Moritz Arndt

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“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.” — Robert Bolt

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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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“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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“Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.” — Bob Dylan

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“In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.” — Abdul Kalam

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“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul when death is immanent what can you do?” — Chanakya

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“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.” — James Dean

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“Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.” — Ron Paul

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