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Death Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
- The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it…
- The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert…
- The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker…
- At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to…
- Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
- If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
- He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
- A useless life is an early death.
- Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
- Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he…
- As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark…
- An unused life is an early death.
- Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden