967 private quotes tagged death

“We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.”— Anthony Hopkins

“When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”— Tecumseh

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”— Robert Fulghum

“Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”— Patrick Henry

“It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?”— Jim Carrey

“An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.”— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.”— Jim Morrison

“Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.”— Mel Brooks

“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.”— Che Guevara

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”— Anais Nin

“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”— W. H. Auden

“Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.”— E. W. Howe

“People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.”— Taylor Caldwell

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”— Anais Nin

“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”— David Sarnoff

“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.”— Stewart Alsop

“Give me liberty or give me death.”— Patrick Henry

“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

“Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'”— Bill Maher

“When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.”— John Greenleaf Whittier

“When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.”— Marlene Dietrich

“Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.”— Annie Lennox

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

“If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.”— Tupac Shakur