967 private quotes tagged death

“The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.” — David Herbert Lawrence

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“Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.” — Virgil

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“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.” — John Steinbeck

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

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“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.” — Philip Johnson

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“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.” — Patrick Henry

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“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” — Robert M. Hutchins

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“He who doesn't fear death dies only once.” — Giovanni Falcone

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“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee.” — John Donne

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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.” — Damien Hirst

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“I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.” — T. D. Jakes

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“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike

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“The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.” — Norman Cousins

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“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.” — Pope John Paul II

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“Death is a distant rumor to the young.” — Andy Rooney

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“You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.” — Joel Osteen

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“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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“I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.” — Billy Graham

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“Life is but a moment, death also is but another.” — Robert H. Schuller

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“Death is a billion-dollar business. They can't even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why don't you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a driver's license? It's totally insane.” — John Cusack

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“Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.” — Ovid

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“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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