967 private quotes tagged death

“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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“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.” — Anne Frank

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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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“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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“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.” — Woody Allen

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“A useless life is an early death.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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“You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” — Joseph Stalin

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“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.” — Blaise Pascal

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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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“Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.” — Jackie Kennedy

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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” — Julius Caesar

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“Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.” — H. G. Wells

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“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.” — Jim Morrison

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“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.” — Mary Catherine Bateson

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“Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.” — B. R. Hayden

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“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.” — Horace

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“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.” — Graham Greene

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“Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.” — Jean Cocteau

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