Death Quotes - page 4

The death of dogma is the birth of reality. (Immanuel Kant)
The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. View quote
Harriet Tubman
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death. View quote
Lena Horne
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. View quote
Horace Mann
If you really believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt? View quote
Doug Stanhope
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. View quote
Thomas Paine
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. View quote
William Hazlitt
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 Hammarskjöld)
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people. View quote
David Lloyd George
Death calls ye to the crowd of common men. View quote
James Shirley
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. View quote
James Shirley
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. View quote
Norman Cousins
The aims of life are the best defense against death. View quote
Primo Levi
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom. View quote
Georg Büchner
Death is the most blessed dream. View quote
Georg Büchner
The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever. View quote
Georg Büchner
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. View quote
Thornton Wilder
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. (Georges Rouault)
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. View quote
Montesquieu
Sleep. Those little slices of death. How I loathe them. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
Life is a predicament which precedes death. View quote
Henry James
The only cure for a real hangover is death. View quote
Robert Benchley
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