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

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

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

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

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

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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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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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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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“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.” — Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

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“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.” — Samuel Butler

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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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