It is foolish to be afraid of death. JUST THINK!!
No more repaired tires on the body vehicle,
no more patchwork living.
- Paramhansa Yogananda
Do not take thought for your persons or your properties,
but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
I tell you that the virtue is not given by money, but that from vitue
come money and every other good of man, public as well as private...
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in
avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.
- Socrates
Death row is a state of mind.
-Doris Ann Foster
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn;
it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death
by a frown on the right person's brow.
- Charles Brower
Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.
-Jewish Proverb
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
- Bishop Hall
It's a phony issue. To pretend the death penalty is going to end crime
in the United States is to fool people, to promote public ignorance.
-Rudolph W. Giuliani (R), former U.S. Attorney of New York,
former mayor of New York City
For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life.
It is not a fact in the world.
- Wittgenstein
To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error,
no sin sickness, nor death.
- Mary Baker Eddy
I only remember two kisses - the first and the last.
The first, with my love and the last, with death.
The first brought happiness and the last relief!
- Srijit Prabhakaran
I would rather live and love where death is king
than have eternal life where love is not
- Robert G. Ingersoll
It is not "anti-choice" and "pro-choice" it is "pro-life" and "pro-death".
-Unknown
Born free, taxed to death.
-Unknown
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. Of the two, taxes happen annually.
-Joel Fox
The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents.
-Rep. Bob Schaffer, R-Colorado
No taxation without respiration.
-Rep. Bob Schaffer, R-Colorado, on repeal of the death tax.
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile initially scared me to death.
- Betty Bender
Death Valley is neither dead nor a valley.
-Jerry Bunin, News Editor, Five Cities Times-Press-Recorder, April 6, 1988
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov
Nothing makes a man more aware of his capabilities and of his limitations
than those moments when he must push aside all the familiar defenses of
ego and vanity, and accept reality by staring, with the fear that
is normal to a man in combat, into the face of Death.
-Major Robert S. Johnson, USAAF
Om Asatoma Sadgamaya
Tamasoma Jyoti Gamaya
Myrityoma Amritam Gamaya
From delusion lead me to Truth
From darkness lead me to Light
From death lead me to eternal life.
- Hindu prayer from the Sanskrit - Universal Prayer
The valley we call Death, isn't really that different from much
of the rest of the desert West. It's just a little deeper, a little hotter
and a little drier. What sets it apart more than anything else is the mind's eye.
-Richard E. Lingenfelter
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
- Gloria Steinem
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to
visualize a world without death! . . .
Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I am become Death, shatterer of worlds.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer upon witnessing the explosion of the first atomic bomb
Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon
Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little.
And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself
whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
- Robert Bolt
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived
- Willa Cather
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short,
but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit,
and our swelter of heat we say we have had our day
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice
a little higher and said, You hear him now.
- Kahlil Gibran
Birth and Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery.
- Kahlil Gibran
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
- Kahlil Gibran
Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
A man is not completely born until he is dead.
- Benjamin Franklin
What we commonly call death does not destroy the body,
it only causes a separation of spirit and body.
- Brigham Young
Is death the last sleep? No--it is the last and final awakening.
- Sir Walter Scott
Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
- Charles Frohman
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
- William Penn
Life is eternal and love is immortal; And death is only a horizon,
And a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
- Rossiter W. Raymond
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life;
foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
- Buddha (B.C.E. 568-488)
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
- Margaret Mitchell Gone with the wind
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H.H. Munroe
A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values,
principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself.
In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks.
The best you can write will be the best you are.
- Henry David Thoreau
Born Free. . . . .Taxed to Death
- Unknown
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Edward W. Howe
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us;
it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
- Virginia Woolf
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it.
Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
- Frederick Douglass
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
- Patrick Henry
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination,
fed upon illusion and put to death by reality.
- Judy Garland (1922-1969) US actress, singer
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
I want to achieve it through not dying
- Woody Allen
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
- Jack Lemmon
We must love one another or die
- W.H. Auden poem - September 1, 1939
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 Poet, Author
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic
- Joseph Stalin
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
- Unknown
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
- Unknown
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man
who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill
One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth.
- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
If I think more about death than some other people,
it is probably because I love life more than they do.
- Angelina Jolie
Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men,
for whom only death could bring release
- John M. Wilson
When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed.
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.
Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss.
I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
- Unknown
There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
- Unknown
Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes
- Benjamin Franklin
Will the Black Death return?
Dread of this horrible epidemic is a dim memory confined to history books.
But antibiotic-resistant plague is alive and well.
and if it is used as a weapon, no one will be safe.
-Wendy Orent, discover.com
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
- William Wallace From the movie Braveheart
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have
done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Be of good cheer about death and know this as a truth
--that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
- Socrates
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come.
- William Shakespeare Hamlet
I have died many a death in love, and yet, had I not loved I would never have lived at all.
- David Lasater
Death certificates in the US over represent coronary heart disease as a
cause of death by 24.3 per cent ...
-Lloyd-Jones DM, Martin DO, Larson MG, Levy D.,
"Accuracy of death certificates for coding coronary heart disease as the cause of death."
Ann Intern Med 1998; 129: 1020-6
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you
is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
- W. Somerset Maugham author
Death is well understood,it's life that isn't.
- Tony Follari Comedian
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