(216 quotes found)
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind”
Horace Mann
“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
T.S. Eliot
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”
Henry Van Dyke
“The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”
Hunter S. Thompson
“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.”
Albert Einstein
“Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.”
Emily Dickinson
“Our life is made by the death of others.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.”
Johnny Carson
“The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good”
John Barrymore
