967 private quotes tagged death

“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

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

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“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.” — John Keats

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

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

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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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“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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“At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.” — Oliver Reed

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

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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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“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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“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 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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“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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“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.” — Juliette Binoche

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“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.” — Tecumseh

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“Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.” — Ron White

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“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.” — Ernst Moritz Arndt

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“Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.” — Clint Eastwood

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