Quotes
Quotes about Death
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe in God. Believing in God amounts to coming to terms with death. When you have accepted death, the problem of God will be solved--and not the reverse.
Because I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And immortaility.
The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?.
So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death.
Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.
Death to all fanatics.
Death is the broom I take in my hands to sweep the world clean.
Despair is a great incentive to honorable death. [Lat., Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.]
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The younger disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.
The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.
There is a divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.
Tomb, thou shalt not hold Him longer; Death is strong, but Life is stronger; Stronger than the dark, the light; Stronger than the wrong, the right; Faith and Hope triumphant say Christ will rise on Easter Day.
In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Thou art so witty, profligate and thin, At once we think thee Satan, Death and Sin.
Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.
