Deathanddying Quotes

You die as you've lived. If you were paranoid in life, you'll probably be paranoid when you're dying.

Dr. James Cimino

...the true disciple of philosophy is likely to be misunderstood by other men; they do not perceive that he is ever pursuing death and dying; and if this is true, why, having had the desire of death all his life long, should he repine at that which he has always been pursuing and desiring?

Socrates

You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

Jon Crosby

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death

Tom Robbins

Life without the courage for death is slavery

Seneca

He that dies pays all debts

William Shakespeare

He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause.

William Shakespeare

Death cancels everything but truth

Proverb

she felt this thing that she called life terrible, hostile, and quick to pounce on you if you gave it a chance. There were the eternal problems: suffering; death; the poor. There was always a woman dying of cancer even here. And yet she had said to all these children, You shall go through with it.

Virginia Woolf

And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs.

Plato

The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity - and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive

Friedrich Nietzsche

This fell sergeant, death, is strict in his arrest

William Shakespeare

I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable

George Bernard Shaw

A rotten case abides no handling

William Shakespeare

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Mahatma Gandhi

Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

Jane Austen

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries

William Shakespeare

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day

George Eliot

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Caroline Wozniacki

Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry

Mark Twain