Death Quotes: Reflections on the Inevitable (Page 7)

"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

"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death"

Socrates, Philosopher

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings"

Socrates, Philosopher

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

William Penn, Leader

"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them"

Tennessee Williams, Dramatist

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings"

Horace, Poet

"Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings"

Horace, Poet

"He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world"

Horace, Poet

"The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death"

Horace, Poet

"For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"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"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence"

Thomas Hardy, Novelist

"Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Death is only a larger kind of going abroad"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Birth was the death of him"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity"

George Eliot, Author

"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity"

George Eliot, Author

"In every parting there is an image of death"

George Eliot, Author

"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet"

George Eliot, Author

"There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death"

Dave Barry, Author

"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Death is softer by far than tyranny"

Aeschylus, Playwright

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