Death Quotes - page 3

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 Stevenson II)
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. View quote
Brendan Behan
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. View quote
William Cowper
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. View quote
Thomas Mann
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. View quote
Francis Bacon
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
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. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. (Martin Heidegger)
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. View quote
Stendhal
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. View quote
Michelangelo
I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between "life" and "death"; between creativity and destructive violence; between reality and illusions; between objectivity and intolerance; between brotherhood-independence and dominance-submission. View quote
Erich Fromm
A useless life is an early death. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. View quote
William Shakespeare
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. View quote
Mark Twain
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Is death the last step No, it is the final awakening. View quote
Walter Scott
I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. (Al Capone)
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. View quote
Nelson Mandela
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. View quote
Jean Cocteau
The goal of all life is death. View quote
Sigmund Freud
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