967 private quotes tagged death

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

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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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“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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“Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.” — George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Death is a fearful thing.” — William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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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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“We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.” — Coco Chanel

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