Death Quotes

13020 Death quotes by 5305 unique authors

The way of the samurai is found in death. When it comes to either or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is… — Nabeshima Naoshige
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your… — Nabeshima Naoshige
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. — John Milton
The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought. — Woody Allen
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. — Epictetus
Hurry is the death of Prayer. — Samuel Chadwick
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the… — Saint John Chrysostom
Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow. — Eric Hoffer
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own… — Mario Puzo
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may… — Edward McKendree Bounds
In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime. — Abdul Kalam
‎Niko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet. — Janet Morris
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca the Younger
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a… — Luigi Pirandello
Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego. — Rajneesh
When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth… — Rudolf Steiner
I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death. — Unknown Author
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. — Anais Nin
Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please. — Joseph Conrad
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! — Virginia Woolf
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have… — William Wells Brown
Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The… — William Wells Brown
The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. — Frederick Douglass
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction… — Nikki Giovanni

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