967 private quotes tagged death

“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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“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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“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.” — Sun Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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“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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“The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.” — Bertrand Russell

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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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“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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“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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“Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.” — Alice Thomas Ellis

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“Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.” — Carter Burwell

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