967 private quotes tagged death

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.” — William Shakespeare

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

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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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“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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“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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“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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“Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.” — Tennessee Williams

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“In every parting there is an image of death.” — George Eliot

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“For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.” — Sophocles

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“For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night.” — Sophocles

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“Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“Man always dies before he is fully born.” — Erich Fromm

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“I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Call no man happy till he is dead.” — Aeschylus

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“Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.” — Samuel Butler

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“There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.” — Albert Camus

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“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.” — Samuel Butler

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“I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.” — William Butler Yeats

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