Death

28 quotes.

• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

• Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

  Norman Cousins

• A man who dies before he dies does not die when he dies.

  Abraham a Sancta Clara

• A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.

  Joseph Stalin

• Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument.

  Anonymous

• Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.

  J. J. Furnas

• Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

  Woody Allen

• Death: to stop sinning suddenly.

  Anonymous

• Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

  W. Somerset Maughm

• Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

  Joe Louis

• I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  Winston Churchill

• I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

  Woody Allen

• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  Isaac Asimov

• I wouldn't mind dying -- it's the business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.

  R. Geis

• It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

  Woody Allen

• Life is madness, reason is death.

  Angelia Jones

• Life without a friend is like death without a witness.

  Spanish Proverb

• Love, like death, changes everything.

  Anonymous

• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  Francis Bacon, "Of Death"

• The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.

  Knight Ridder News Service dispatch

• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

  Thomas Paine

• There is a certain inevitability to a couple of things. Death and taxes come to mind. However, death doesn't get worse every time the legislators come together.

  Anonymous

• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

  James F. Byrnes

• Truth is always the death of what it is the truth of.

  Jacques Derrida

• We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.

  Joel Rosenberg, "The Silver Crown"

• What is life, except excuse for death, or death but an escape from life.

  Anonymous

• When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming -- I am, however, going to try to talk my way out of it. "No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky."

  Joel Rosenberg, "The Warrior Lives"

• If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

  Stephen Levine

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