967 private quotes tagged death

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

“Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.”— Alice Thomas Ellis

“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.”— Carter Burwell

“Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.”— John Wayne

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

“Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?”— Barry Goldwater

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

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

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

“Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”— Hannah Arendt

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

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

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”— Lois McMaster Bujold

“I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.”— Rainn Wilson

“A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart.”— Lewis Thomas

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”— Ashley Montagu

“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.”— Jeff Goodell

“No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.”— Billy Graham

“For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep.”— George Santayana

“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.”— Miguel de Unamuno

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”— Huey Newton

“The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.”— E. M. Forster

“Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.”— Thomas Merton

“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.”— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.”— Emily Dickinson