Death Foretold

Death takes no bribes. - Benjamin Franklin

Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar Wilde

Death is philosophy's only problem. - Albert Camus

The death of a beloved is an amputation. - C S Lewis

It is not death that alarms me, but dying. - Michel De Montaigne

It is not death but dying which is terrible. - Henry Fielding

Biography is one of the new terrors of death. - John Arbuthnot

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. - Jack Nicholson

Life and joy and beauty are better than dusty death. - Bertrand Russell

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain

Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down. - Unknown

There is no cure for death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

If we do not know about life, how can we know about death? - Confucius

The American Way of life, si! The American Way of death, no! - Archie Bunker

His death was the first time that Ed Wynn ever made anyone sad. - Red Skelton

Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. - Buddha

There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. - Lyman Beecher

The tragedy of Mormonism is, a single death makes a dozen widows. - American Saying

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm. - Malayan Proverb

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. - John Donne

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. - Fulton J. Sheen

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. - Nancy Reagan

Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world. - Mark Twain

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. - George Carlin

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. - Karen Russell

Christ has not only spoken to us by his life but has also spoken for us by his death. - Soren Kierkegaard

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. - William Shakespeare

Death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there'd have been a fight. - Theodore Roosevelt

Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. - Yoda

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been. - Daniel Keyes

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom. - George Carlin

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die. - Ray Bradbury

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage. - Rosie Thomas

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. - C S Lewis

Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die;
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred. - Alfred Tennyson

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where one ends, and the other begins? - Edgar Alan Poe

Sir, your remarks are repugnant to me, and I disagree with your viewpoints. But I will defend to the death your right to express them. - Voltaire