967 private quotes tagged death

“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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“A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“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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“The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.” — Will Rogers

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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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“To some extent I liken slavery to death.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

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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 my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.” — Khalil Gibran

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

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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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“Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.” — Leo Tolstoy

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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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“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Marriage is the death of hope.” — Woody Allen

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“Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.” — Socrates

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“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other.” — Harriet Tubman

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

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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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“Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.” — George Eliot

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“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.” — Lord Byron

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