Death Quotes - Page 111

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

...to be injured on this tundra would lead to a quick and painful death—or at the very least abject humiliation before the popping flashes of the tourist season's tail end, which was slightly less painful than a painful death, but lasted longer.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

A death-bed's a detector of the heart.

It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.

If you love sleep, you'll really enjoy death.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

Isn't death the boundary we need?

I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.

Thales said there was no difference between life and death. Why, then, said some one to him, do not you die? Because, said he, it does make no difference.

Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction. Nothing, that is distinctly conceivable, implies a contradiction. Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent. There is no being, therefore, whose non-existence implies a contradiction. Consequently there is no being, whose existence is demonstrable.

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

The death penalty is inhumane... whether that person is in a [jail] or it's bin Laden.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?

Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring? And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure? Is there a better way to die?