967 private quotes tagged death

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

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

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

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“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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 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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“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.” — Will Rogers

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

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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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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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

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

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“Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.” — Aeschylus

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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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“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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“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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