Death quotes

Give me liberty or give me death.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

A useless life is an early death.

It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Death solves all problems - no man, no problem.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.