death quotes

• Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
  A tale of folly and of wasted life,
  Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife,
  Ending, where all things end, in death at last. (William Morris) [life/death]
• On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. (Woody Allen) [plus/death]
• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. (Theodore Roosevelt) [death/death/suffering]
• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. (Theodore Roosevelt) [death/death/suffering]
• Love has no age, no limit; and no death. (John Galsworthy) [love/age/death]
• All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. (Thomas Mann) [interest/disease/death/interest]
• Life is a predicament which precedes death. (Henry James) [life/death]
• Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ( Socrates) [death/human]
• To live a life half-dead, a living death. (John Milton) [life/death]
• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. (Joseph Addison) [fear/death/people/destroy]
• On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down. (Woody Allen) [plus/death]
• Marriage is the death of hope. (Woody Allen) [marriage/death]
• Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. (Hannah Arendt) [death/life/human]
• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. (Francis Bacon) [death]
• 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. (Francis Bacon) [men/fear/death/fear]
• Pleasure is continually disappointed, reduced, deflated, in favor of strong, noble values: Truth, Death, Progress, Struggle, Joy, etc. Its victorious rival is Desire: we are always being told about Desire, never about Pleasure. (Roland Barthes) [pleasure/truth/death/civilization & progress]
• Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. (Georges Bataille) [life/death]
• Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination. (Jean Baudrillard) [death/anonymous/chance/state]
• 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. (Jean Baudrillard) [right/death/time/time]
• Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. (Francis Beaumont) [fear/love/death]
• Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell. (Henry Ward Beecher) [death/flower]
• Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children; (Henry Ward Beecher) [death/life]
• Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. (Hilaire Belloc) [loss/death/life/shadow]
• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. (Walter Benjamin) [death/goodwill/death]
• What seems to be, is, to those to whom it seems to be, and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be, even of torments, despair, eternal death. (William Blake) [death]
• It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr. ( Napoleon I) [death]
• The fear of death is worse than death. (Robert Burton) [fear/death/death]
• If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death. (Samuel Butler) [life/seriously/death]
• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. (Samuel Butler) [men/death/life]
• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. (Samuel Butler) [death]
• Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible. (Samuel Butler) [death/destroy/time/creation]

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