Death Quote by Ruby Dee

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends…

— Friedrich Schiller

I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.

— Edmund White

Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living

— Mother Jones

But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no…

— Bruce Sterling

“Death did this to people: making cowards, scapegoats, preachers and mourners of the living; while the dead – ignoble or not – became objects…

— Meghna Pant

It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.

— Adela Rogers St. Johns

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not…

— Charles Bukowski

Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keeps…

— Kenneth Turan

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace…

— Chanakya

Death itself is a natural occurrence, it is unavoidable, and the Stoics thought that part of philosophical practice is to get comfortable with the…

— Massimo Pigliucci

I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and…

— James Gilligan