967 private quotes tagged death

“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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“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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“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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“At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.” — George Carlin

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“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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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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“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.” — William Shakespeare

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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Our life is made by the death of others.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.” — Samuel Butler

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“Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.” — Socrates

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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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“Marriage is the death of hope.” — Woody Allen

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“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.” — Harriet Tubman

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

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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” — Michelangelo

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“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” — Lord Byron

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