Quotes with death

  • Well, now there's a remedy for everything except death.
  • Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
  • Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
  • In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
  • In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
  • Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
  • In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
  • Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
  • The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.
  • Baby this town rips the bones from your back It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A useless life is an early death.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Cowper Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Voltaire I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • James Stephens ''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Napoleon Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine Not to love is not to live or it is to live a living death. The life, that goes out in love to all, is the life, that is full and rich and continually expanding in beauty and power.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Joel Rosenberg Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
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  • P. D. James A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Samuel Beckett Birth was the death of him.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
    Major Campaign Speeches of Adlai E. Stevenson (1952)
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Joseph Bayly Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.
    Joseph Bayly
     
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  • Epicurus Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Emily Dickinson Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • A. Sachs Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
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