967 private quotes tagged death

“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.” — Samuel Butler

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“Which death is preferably to every other? 'The unexpected'.” — Julius Caesar

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“Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.” — William Blake

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“Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.” — Samuel Butler

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“In every death, a busy world comes to an end.” — Mason Cooley

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“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” — Leonardo da Vinci

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“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.” — Samuel Butler

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“Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.” — William Shakespeare

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“For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.” — Aeschylus

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“Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.” — Herman Melville

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“That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.” — Friedrich Schiller

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“Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.” — Plautus

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“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“Death is softer by far than tyranny.” — Aeschylus

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“An unused life is an early death.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.” — Epicurus

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“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” — Victor Hugo

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“Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.” — Samuel Johnson

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“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.” — Aristotle

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“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.” — Khalil Gibran

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