Death Quotes: Reflections on the Inevitable (Page 9)

"There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face"

Ian Fleming, Author

"Have an earnestness for death and you will have life"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven"

Michelangelo, Artist

"What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death"

Susan Sontag, Author

"What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death"

George P. Baker

"If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices"

William Robertson Smith, Scientist

"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Death is the final wake-up call"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"Death is feared as birth is forgotten"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"To awake from death is to die in peace"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

"If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart"

Tecumseh, Leader

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

Alexander Chase, Author

"Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death"

Miguel de Unamuno, Educator

"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home"

Tecumseh, Leader

"Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide"

Tecumseh, Leader

"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence"

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Normality is death"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar"

Xun Kuang, Philosopher

"True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things"

Stendhal, Writer

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

Brendan Behan, Dramatist

"The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island"

John Millington Synge, Poet

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"There is something about poverty that smells like death"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

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