967 private quotes tagged death

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“At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.”— George Carlin
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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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“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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“I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.”— Francis Bacon
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“Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.”— Michel de Montaigne
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“There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.”— Thomas A. Edison
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“Our life is made by the death of others.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”— Carl Jung
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“To some extent I liken slavery to death.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .”— Woody Allen
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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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“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.”— Will Rogers
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“The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.”— Blaise Pascal
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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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“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.”— Samuel Butler
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“If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.”— Khalil Gibran
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“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.”— William Shakespeare
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“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.”— Leo Tolstoy
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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 easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.”— Aeschylus
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“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”— Oscar Wilde
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“I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.”— Anne Frank
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“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Marriage is the death of hope.”— Woody Allen