Tis after death that we measure men- James Barron Hope
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private citizens will occasionally kill theirs. - Elbert Hubbard
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Delores Ibarruri
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it’s abominable. - Immanuel Kant
So passes away the glory of this world. (Sic transit gloria mundi.) - Thomas A. Kempis
In the long run, we are all dead. - John Maynard Keynes
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. - Soren Kierkegaard
If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Every soul must taste of death. - Koran
I often say a great doctor kills more people than a great general. - G. W. Leibniz
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. - Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross, “On Death And Dying,”
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. - Rush Limbaugh
...it is only death which is hopeless. - Maria McIntosh
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. - William Somerset Maugham
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth he hath it. - Charles Mackay
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her. - H. L. Mencken
We die only once, and for such a long time! - Moliere
The idea is to die young as late as possible. - Ashley Montagu
The dead have nothing except the memory they’ve left. - Ferenc Molnaar
A beautiful death is for people who have lived like animals to die like angels. - Mother Teresa
I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven. In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings, and princes, but in Heaven only beggars, monks, hermits, and apostles. - Niccolo Machiavelli
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. - Edvard Munch
Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat. - Bill Musselman
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. - Vladimir Nabokov
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? - Holly Near
Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. - P.J. O’Rourke
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting. - P.J. O’Rourke
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live on in another still. - William Penn
The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. - Pope John Paul II
But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; In the gladdest days and the darkest nights... always, always, and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath, as the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. Sarah, do not mourn me dead; think I am gone and wait for thee, for we shall meet again. - Major Sullivan Balloe to his wife one week before his death.
Death should not be seen as the end but as a very effective way to cut down expenses. - Woody Allen
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.- Woody Allen
Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.- William Shakespeare
To die will be an awfully big adventure. - James Matthew Barrie
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? - Bible - 1 Corinthians 5:5
Every time a child says “I don’t believe in fairies,” there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. - James Matthew Barrie
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. - Bible Psalms 23:4
If a man watched three football games in a row, he should be declare legally dead. - Erma Bombeck
Rest is for the dead. - Thomas Carlyle
You can’t get out of life alive. - Les Brown
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminals deed, however calculated, can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life. - Albert Camus
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. - Winsron Churchill
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. - Allen, Woody
I prefer old age to the alternative.-- Chevalier, Maurice
I've never killed a man, but I've read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Darrow, Clarence [Seward] (1857-1938)
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to try to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off. - Eluard, Kieth
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that. - Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. - Josef de Maistre
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. - Tryon Edwards
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz "Anger in the Sky" (1943)
Capital punishment is our society’s recognition of the sanctity of human right. - Orrin Hatch
On the subject of wild mushrooms, it is easy to tell who is an expert and who is not: The expert is the one who is still alive. - Donal Henahan
