967 private quotes tagged death

“Inactivity is death.” — Benito Mussolini

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“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” — Joel Osteen

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“Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.” — Herodotus

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“The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.” — Terry Pratchett

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“I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.” — Giuseppe Garibaldi

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“At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.” — Ivan Illich

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“What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?” — Jessica Savitch

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“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.” — Christopher Fry

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“Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.” — Bodhidharma

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“I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.” — Quentin Tarantino

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

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“If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.” — Marilyn Manson

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“Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.” — Pearl S. Buck

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“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.” — Henry Miller

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“Death is the great hope of all life the desire to expend itself to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.” — Bertolt Brecht

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“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.” — Gertrude Stein

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“Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.” — William Hazlitt

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“I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy

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“Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.” — Henry Van Dyke

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“The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.” — Florence Nightingale

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“Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.” — Keith Richards

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“After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.” — Jean Cocteau

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“You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive.” — Jean Cocteau

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“A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.” — Jean Racine

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