Death Quotes - Page 29

Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

I have no fear of death, except I hate waiting for it.

The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.

I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me. I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget; we've only got so many tricks. no one lives forever.

My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns.

A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

As the woodpecker taps in a spiral quest From the root to the top of the tree, Then flies to another tree, So have I bored into life to find what lay therein, And now it is time to die, And I will fly to another tree.

Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death. In social settings he was awkward and timid, but he overcame this and practice boldness in every part of his life because he saw its tremendous power, how it could literally enlarge a man(even one who, like Napoleon, was in fact conspicuously small).

Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die.