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
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.
-- Winston Churchill
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
-- Unknown
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
-- Unknown
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
-- Unknown
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
-- Unknown
There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.
-- Unknown
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-- Joseph Stalin
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
-- Lyman Beecher
There is no goal better than this one: to know as you lie on your deathbed that you lived your true life, and you did whatever made you happy.
-- Steve Chandler, "100 Ways to Motivate Yourself"
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
-- Jack Lemmon
We must love one another or die
-- Jack Lemmon
Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes
-- Benjamin Franklin
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
-- Judy Garland (1922-1969) born on Jun 10 US actress, singer
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
-- Patrick Henry
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
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
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome
-- Jimi Hendrix
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 - Broken Wings
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
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
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
Born Free. . . . .Taxed to Death
-- Unknown
If man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live
-- Martin Luther King
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
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
-- Clarence Darrow
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
-- Ed Howe
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
-- Margaret Mitchell (Gone With the Wind)
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)
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
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
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
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
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)
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
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
-- John Taylor
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
-- William Penn
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
Is death the last sleep? No - it is the last and final awakening.
-- Sir Walter Scott
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream...it may be so at the moment of death.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.
-- Jean Paul Richter
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
-- Walt Whitman
Death is the most beautiful adventure in life.
-- Charles Frohman
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
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come.
-- William Shakespeare - Hamlet
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
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)
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha (B.C.E. 568-488)
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
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha (B.C.E. 568-488)
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)
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, _Perennials from Phillips Brooks_, 19thC
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
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)
I am become Death, shatterer of worlds.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer, upon witnessing the explosion of the first atomic bomb
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.
-- Betty Bender
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin, sickness, nor death.
-- Mary Baker Eddy
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
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
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)
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
Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
-- Bishop Hall
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
It is foolish to be afraid of death. JUST THINK!! No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.
-- Paramhansa Yogananda