967 private quotes tagged death

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

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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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“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.” — Sophocles

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“I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Man always dies before he is fully born.” — Erich Fromm

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“Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.” — Samuel Butler

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“If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.” — Joseph Stalin

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“Call no man happy till he is dead.” — Aeschylus

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“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.” — Francis Bacon

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“To some extent I liken slavery to death.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.” — Albert Camus

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“In every parting there is an image of death.” — George Eliot

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“I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.” — William Butler Yeats

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