Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" A useless life is an early death. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Related Quotes:

" What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation. "

Chiang Kai-shek

" You're taught from the day you start medical school that you're a god, that you can have power over life and death. So when your life starts to crumble, and the highest power you see is looking back in the mirror - and you know that power is flawed - it is very hard to get past that. "

" 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. "

" Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "

" We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold. "

" There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. "

" When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Ernest Hemingway

" My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death. "

Sebastian Horsley

" Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" My sister is a mess. I love her to death, but she is a mess. "

" Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide. "

" You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount. "

" We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. "

" Since we all know that death is inevitable, I don't really see the difference between dying now and dying a decade later. So if I'm threatened with assassination, I welcome it! "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast. "

" I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men. "

Julianna Baggott

" Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. "

" It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. "

Marcus Aurelius

" But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. "

" Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death. "

" Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death. "

" The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. "

" Death and the dice level all distinctions. "

" Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe