Death Quotes - Page 7

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively...that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God for a literal Christ, for a literal salvation. There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven.

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

The brave die never, though they sleep in dust: Their courage nerves a thousand living men.

One regret dear world, that I am determined not to have when I am lying on my deathbed is that I did not kiss you enough.

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

To be, or not to be, that is the question: 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: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.