Death Quotes: Reflections on the Inevitable (Page 6)

"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death"

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Life is a predicament which precedes death"

Henry James, Writer

"It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets"

Will Rogers, Actor

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

George Carlin, Comedian

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom"

George Carlin, Comedian

"Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay"

Ovid, Poet

"An evil life is a kind of death"

Ovid, Poet

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death"

George Carlin, Comedian

"Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

"Whether for life or death, do your own work well"

John Ruskin, Writer

"But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death"

Don Van Vliet, Artist

"No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires"

Nelson Mandela, Statesman

"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?"

W. C. Fields, Comedian

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

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

"It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death"

Gertrude Stein, Author

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

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

"Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"In every death, a busy world comes to an end"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

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