967 private quotes tagged death

“If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.” — Samuel Butler

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“A useless life is an early death.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.” — Benjamin Franklin

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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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“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.” — Ernest Hemingway

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

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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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“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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“Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.” — Aeschylus

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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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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” — Michelangelo

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“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.” — Woody Allen

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“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” — Joseph Stalin

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“As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

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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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“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.” — H. G. Wells

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“Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.” — Jackie Kennedy

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“I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.” — Julius Caesar

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“Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.” — Lee Iacocca

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