967 private quotes tagged death

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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“It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.” — Cate Blanchett

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“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.” — Robert Bolt

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“Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.” — David Gerrold

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“If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.” — Scott Caan

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“Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.” — Phoebe Cary

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“Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.” — Errol Flynn

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“Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.” — Erik H. Erikson

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“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.” — Ben Kingsley

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“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.” — Maurice Maeterlinck

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“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.” — Joseph Hall

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“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.” — Alice Walker

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“He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.” — Adam Clarke

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“Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.” — Daniel Barenboim

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“The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.” — Arlo Guthrie

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“Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.” — Jessica Lange

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“Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” — Susan Ertz

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“No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.” — Euripides

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