967 private quotes tagged death

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

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“I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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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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“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 is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.” — George Carlin

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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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“My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.” — Hugh Leonard

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

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

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“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.” — Francis Bacon

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“Death is a fearful thing.” — William Shakespeare

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“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.” — T. S. Eliot

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“For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” — William Penn

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“A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.” — Michel de Montaigne

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

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“Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” — Mark Twain

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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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“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.” — Anne Frank

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“'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.” — Lord Byron

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“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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