967 private quotes tagged death

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

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

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

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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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“It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.” — Voltaire

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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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“The goal of all life is death.” — Sigmund Freud

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

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

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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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“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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