967 private quotes tagged death

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“An unused life is an early death.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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