Death Quotes: Reflections on the Inevitable (Page 5)

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good"

Plato, Philosopher

"Death is not the worst that can happen to men"

Plato, Philosopher

"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

"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"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

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

Edward Young, Poet

"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"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 ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"It is not death, it is dying that alarms me"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death"

Desmond Morris, Scientist

"I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven"

Confucius, Philosopher

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

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Inactivity is death"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

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