967 private quotes tagged death

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.” — Michelangelo

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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.” — Dave Barry

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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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“I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” — George Carlin

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

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

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

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

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

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“Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.” — Aeschylus

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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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“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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