Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Live
Death
Sleep
Related Quotes:
" Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed. "
Billy Graham
Humanity
Bible
Plan
" It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge. "
Charles de Gaulle
Humanity
Death
Better
" No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy. "
Karen DeCrow
Art
Health
Death
" We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the earth. "
Kim Elizabeth
Leaf
Tree
Death
" Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. "
Steve Jobs
Pride
Fear
Fall
" I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. "
Harriet Tubman
Two
Death
Liberty
" Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Change
Evil
Happy
" I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. "
Nancy Reagan
Today
I Believe
Death
" Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues, issues much more serious than what we're talking about in entertainment. You can't get more serious than life and death. And if you can handle that, you can handle anything. "
Ken Jeong
Life
Death
You
" Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. "
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Moment
Peaceful
Death
" My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. "
Elizabeth I
Death
Wish
Welcome
" Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. "
Angela Carter
Life
Life And Death
Nothing
" Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly. "
Aeschylus
Death
Better
Never
" Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. "
Anais Nin
People
Life
Life Is A
" The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. "
Vladimir Lenin
Delay
Same
Government
" There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. "
Jean de la Bruyere
Life
Live
Born
" Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. "
Mel Brooks
Jump
Life
Look
" Early this morning, I signed my death warrant. "
Michael Collins
Early
Warrant
Death
" Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't. "
Peter Benchley
Three
Feet
Long
" There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders. "
Noam Chomsky
Death Penalty
War
Republican
" Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death. "
Lee Iacocca
Death
Respect
God
" Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open. "
Tahar Ben Jelloun
People
Day
Every Day
" In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all. "
Albert Camus
Us
Reality
Sea
" To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. "
Peter Tosh
Truth
Your
You
" A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist. "
Stewart Alsop
Death
Dying
Man
" There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death. If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I'm not that way, and it keeps me steady. "
Tom Landry
Winning
Me
Lose
" There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! "
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sky
Autumn
Harmony
" I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death. "
Huston Smith
Me
Death
Fear
" I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with some of the most difficult people in our society. Buddhism was accessible and helpful for these individuals. "
Joan Halifax
Society
Work
Death
" Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? "
W. C. Fields
Drown
Where
Whiskey