death quotes

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

— Woody Allen

“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”

— Woody Allen

“Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

— Woody Allen

“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.”

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

— Frank Herbert

“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”

— Che Guevara

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”

— Oscar Wilde

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Our life is made by the death of others.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.”

“If we don't know life, how can we know death?”

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.”

“ Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”

“I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. ”

“Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. ”

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.
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“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.”

“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. ”

— Coco Chanel

“True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.”

“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

“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

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

“On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.”

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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