Death Quotes: Reflections on the Inevitable (Page 4)

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

"Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?"

John Clayton

"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death"

Rosalind Russell, Actress

"Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?"

Barry Goldwater, Politician

"All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death"

Edwin M. Stanton, Lawyer

"I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same"

Angus Young, Musician

"The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can"

Paul Kurtz, Philosopher

"I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty"

Nancy Reagan, First Lady

"God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me"

Jane Grey, Royalty

"Not even old age knows how to love death"

Sophocles, Author

"God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides"

Lao Tzu, Author

"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

"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

"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

"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

"An unused life is an early death"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"A useless life is an early death"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated"

Mark Twain, Author

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time"

Mark Twain, Author

"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

"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune"

Woody Allen, Director

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor"

David Carradine, Actor

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

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"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

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

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

Epictetus, Philosopher

"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

"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states"

Elizabeth I, Royalty

"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

"Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

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