967 private quotes tagged death

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” — George Carlin

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“To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.” — Samuel Butler

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“Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.” — William Shakespeare

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“Death is softer by far than tyranny.” — Aeschylus

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“Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.” — Julius Caesar

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“Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.” — Herman Melville

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“If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.” — Aeschylus

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“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.” — Epicurus

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“Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.” — Plautus

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“That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.” — Samuel Butler

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“In every death, a busy world comes to an end.” — Mason Cooley

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“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” — Victor Hugo

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“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.” — Samuel Johnson

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“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.” — Aristotle

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“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” — Thomas Paine

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“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.” — Khalil Gibran

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