Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. "
Ovid
Death
Right
New
Related Quotes:
" Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. "
Elie Wiesel
Long
Minute
God
" Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part! "
Gloria Steinem
Aging
Death
Everything
" Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. "
Sun Tzu
Veterans Day
Stand
Death
" No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it. "
Ovid
Virtue
Us
Value
" Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. "
Norman Cousins
Us
Sympathy
Loss
" The death penalty is ineffective as a deterrent, and the appeals process is expensive and cruel to the surviving family members. "
Martin O'Malley
Death
Death Penalty
Family
" Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. "
Daniel Barenboim
Demands
Tradition
Speak
" Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. "
Aeschylus
Gods
Does
Desire
" Nothing in life is promised except death. "
Kanye West
Death
Nothing
Promised
" I hope to die in the saddle seat. "
Albert Ellis
Death
Saddle
Hope
" O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. "
Anne Boleyn
Quiet
Rock
Rest
" My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess. "
RJ Mitte
Sister
Death
Her
" For me, habit is just a synonym for death. "
Juliette Binoche
Synonym
Habit
Just
" Tears at times have the weight of speech. "
Ovid
Tears
Times
Speech
" The burden which is well borne becomes light. "
Ovid
Well
Which
Light
" Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had. "
Jennifer Armintrout
Grief
Know
Social Media
" Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst. "
Alvar N. C. de Vaca
Sea
Trust
Water
" I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results. "
Alfred Nobel
Promotion
Peace
I Am
" Time is the devourer of all things. "
Ovid
All Things
Things
Time
" When I turned 50, I realized I was now going to start counting backwards in terms of the years I had left. Then I turned 60, and I just stopped counting. I don't have a fear of death, but I have an awareness that there's a time limit. "
Chris Crutcher
Start
Now
Time
" Our life is made by the death of others. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Death
Our
Others
" Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. "
Liu Xiaobo
Death
Life
Freedom
" Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. "
Les Brown
Life
Relationship
Death
" A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's. "
Stan Sakai
Own
Always
Be Prepared
" Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others. "
Leonardo da Vinci
Life
Reality
Man
" Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death. "
Ramana Maharshi
Death
Personality
Body
" If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pay
White
Spirit
" It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. "
Ovid
Annoying
Honest
Purpose
" Daring is not safe against daring men. "
Ovid
Men
Against
Daring
" I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. "
Stephen Hawking
Want
Afraid
Hurry