967 private quotes tagged death

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.” — George Eliot

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.” — Tennessee Williams

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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. '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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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.” — William Shakespeare

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“For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.” — Sophocles

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