It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

"Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Marriage is the death of hope.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

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.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Birth was the death of him.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The fear of death is worse than death.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy -- invincible determination -- a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Evidently there are plenty of people in journalism who have neither got what they liked nor quite grown to like what they get. They write pieces they do not much enjoy writing, for papers they totally despise, and the sad process ends by ruining their style and disintegrating their personality, two developments which in a writer cannot be separate, since his personality and style must progress or deteriorate together, like a married couple in a country where death is the only permissible divorce.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives -- the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Our life is made by the death of others.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

I feel like a white granular mass of amorphous crystals -- my formula appears to be isomeric with Spasmotoxin. My aurochloride precipitates into beautiful prismatic needles. My Platinochloride develops octahedron crystals, -- with a fine blue florescence. My physiological action is not indifferent. One millionth of a grain injected under the skin of a frog produced instantaneous death accompanied by an orange blossom odor.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]

Immortal mortals, mortal immortals, one living the others death and dying the others life.More [01/01/2000 12:01:00]