DEATH

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

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
--Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, "Did you bring joy?" The second was, "Did you find joy?"
--Leo Buscaglia

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.
--Marion Woodman Canadian analyst, writer

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

For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has claimed our limbs, Then we shall truly dance.
--Kahlil Gibran

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

If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
--Stone Temple Pilots

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
--Clarence Darrow

If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
--H.H. Munroe

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
--Holly Near

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
--Mark Twain

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

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, that myth is more potent that history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts, that hope always triumphs over experience, that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
--From the movie The Crow

One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]

I don't believe people die from hard work. They die from stress and worry and fear -- the negative emotions. Those are the killers, not hard work. The fact is, in our society today, most people don't understand what hard work is all about.
--A.L. Williams Businessman

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

A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
--Albert Einstein

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

the silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God's secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body's elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.
--Kahlil Gibran

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

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
--Seneca

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
--Rabindranath Tagore

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
--John Taylor


Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not
--Henry David Thoreau (upon the death of his brother)

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

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
--Jean Paul Richter

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

The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death
--that is not the great thing
--but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
--Phillips Brooks

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

If Easter says anything to us today, it says this: You can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there. You can nail it to a cross, wrap it in winding sheets and shut it up in a tomb, but it will rise!
--Clarence W. Hall Reader's Digest_, 1957

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