967 private quotes tagged death

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.” — Carl Jung

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“On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .” — Woody Allen

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

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“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.” — George Eliot

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

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