death

1.

Death is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

2.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.

- William Shakespeare

3.

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.

- Miller, Henry

4.

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

5.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be nor more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. [Revelation]

- Bible

6.

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

- Dietrich, Marlene

7.

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

- Smith, Alexander

8.

For them it's out-of-date and outmoded to perform miracles; teaching the people is too like hard work, interpreting the holy scriptures is for schoolmen and praying is a waste of time; to shed tears is weak and womanish, to be needy is degrading; to suffer defeat is a disgrace and hardly fitting for one who scarcely permits the greatest of kings to kiss the toes of his sacred feet; and finally, death is an unattractive prospect, and dying on a cross would be an ignominious end.

- Erasmus, Desiderius

9.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

- Thomas Carlyle

10.

Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

11.

At exactly which point do you start to realise, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?

- Talib Kweli

12.

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

- Confucius

13.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not and death shall have no dominion.

- Dylan Thomas

14.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

- Macarthur, Douglas

15.

You can't aim a duck to death.

- Boardman, Gael

16.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

- Levi, Primo

17.

Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his death, whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!

- Bormann, Martin

18.

There is no death. the stars go down to rise upon some other shore. And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown, they shine for ever more.

- Mccreery, John Luckey

19.

Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!

- Moody, Dwight L.

20.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

- Hallaj