Death Foretold

Death is the price of revolution. - H. Rap Brown

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

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. - Isaiah Berlin

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

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. - Socrates

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. - W H Auden

Death is very often referred to as a good career move. - Buddy Holly

Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne

I know I can't cheat death, but I can cheat old age. - Darwin Deason

Of all the escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. - H L Mencken

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. - Gautama Siddharta

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. - J K Rowling

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. - Mark Batterson

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death. - H.H. Munro

Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready." - Robin Williams

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. - Vincent van Gogh

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping that it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. - Leonardo da Vinci

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

However much you may try to delay, you are fated to meet the same death as I did. - Tiberius Gracchus

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done easily lying down. - Woody Allen

Our marriage vows: till death do us part, for better for worse, in secrets and in health. - Archie Bunker

The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who'd lost three husbands. - Kin Hubbard

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

Life is better than death, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. - Alice Walker

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. - Phyllis Diller

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. - James F. Bymes

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

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking. - Deepak Chopra

Thirteen roadways lead through life
To thirteen doors of death,
Homeward from foolish fears and strife
We float on failing breath. - Tao