Death Quotes - Page 35

• Death persecutes before it executes.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

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• Death is dancing me ragged.

  Linda Hogan

  Dancing, Ragged

  Linda Hogan (1983). “Eclipse”, Amer Indian Studies Center

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• More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Worry, Dies

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• A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

  Will Graham

  Wisdom, Lying, Believe

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• Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears,
  Roses do blush and hang their heads

  Henry Noel Brailsford

  Beauty, Swans, Snow

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• Naked I came, naked I leave the scene

  J. V. Cunningham

  Naked, Scene

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• [I support] term limits for career politicians and the death penalty for career politicians.

  Bill Frist

  Careers, Support, Term Limits

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• Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Integrity, Important, Life Death

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• The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.

  Mary-Lou Weisman

  Girl, Years, Shoes

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• For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Events In Life, World, Facts

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

  Leo Gordon

  Life, Thinking, Hebrew

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• As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.

  Leo Gordon

  Believe, Grace, Soldier

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• It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

  Edward T. Lowe, Jr.

  Monsters, Would Be, Violence

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• Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, People, Helping

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• We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Eye, Office, Bravery

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• ...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Light, Darkness, Tasks

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• Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Agony, Truest

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Soldier, Welcome, Battlefields

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Killing, Defeated

  Mahatma Gandhi (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Eye, Tears

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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• Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Thinking, Government

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Fearless, He Man

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand (2010). “Wof : Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi”, p.40, Penguin Books India

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• I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Shadow, Valleys, World

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Non-Violent Resistance and Social Transformation”, Clarendon Press

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• History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.93, A&C Black

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• The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Religious, Thinking, Religion

  "The Magic Mountain". Book by Thomas Mann, 1924.

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