Quotes about Death, page 3

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about death

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about death

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about death

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about death

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of...

Quote by Albert Camus about death

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about death

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Quote by Albert Camus about death

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Quote by Albert Camus about death

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about death

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about death

We have been permitted to turn our back on the frailty of life. I mean we live so much longer, and the constant presence of death is part of life.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about death

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Quote by Alexander Dumas about death

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about death

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about death

Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.

Quote by Glenn Close about death

Type: Poet Quotes Category: Scottish Poet Quotes Year of Birth: 1732 Year of Death: 1769 Nationality: Scottish Find on Amazon: William Falconer Related Authors: Norman MacCaig Ian Hamilton Finlay Alexander Smith...

Quote by William Falconer about death

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Quote by Bill Gates about death

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about death

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about death