Death Quotes at FixQuotes

"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

"I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough"

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"

Helen Keller, Author

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray"

David Byrne, Musician

"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority"

Edward Young, Poet

"Less base the fear of death than fear of life"

Edward Young, Poet

"Virtue alone has majesty in death"

Edward Young, Poet

"The valiant never taste of death but once"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire"

Edward Young, Poet

"I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Death is a fearful thing"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Not even old age knows how to love death"

Sophocles, Author

"Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life"

Seneca, Playwright

"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death"

Voltaire, Writer

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"

Voltaire, Writer

"Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death"

Alexander Chase, Journalist

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity"

William Penn, Leader

"Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse"

William Hazlitt, Critic

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