Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. "
Buddha
Death
Even
Fear
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
John Donne
Know
I Am
Me
" To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death. "
Peter Tosh
Truth
Your
You
" In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born. "
Michael Ashcroft
Death
Born
War
" Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions. "
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Union
Death Penalty
Most
" How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. "
George MacDonald
Sunset
Never
How
" Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. "
Pope Francis
Death
War
Today
" Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel. "
Reid Hoffman
Judges
Potential
Death
" Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. "
Victor Hugo
Light
Future
Faith
" One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet. "
Alvar N. C. de Vaca
Meeting
People
Death
" Divorce is probably as painful as death. "
William Shatner
Death
Painful
Divorce
" Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. "
Buddha
Life
Happiness
Candle
" And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart. "
Mary Shelley
Happy
Death
Grief
" 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
Loved
Fear
Impossible
" Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life. "
Nick Tosches
Fear
Mortality
Life
" Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. "
Virginia Woolf
Die
Value
Someone
" The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace. "
Thomas Frank
Fear
Business
Great
" Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it. "
Alysia Reiner
You
Process
Grief
" Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you. "
Golshifteh Farahani
Death
Happens
Like
" We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. "
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Dream
Sometimes
Moment
" I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. "
Jack Kerouac
Great
Live
Hope
" In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. "
Carol P. Christ
Death
Goddess
Birth
" There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death. "
David Souter
Moral
Own
Time
" 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
" All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. "
Leo Tolstoy
Death
Violence
Want
" Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. "
Ayn Rand
Avoiding
Death
Life
" I taught myself confidence. When I'd walk into a room and feel scared to death, I'd tell myself, 'I'm not afraid of anybody.' And people believed me. You've got to teach yourself to take over the world. "
Priyanka Chopra
Myself
Death
People
" Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. "
Marina Abramovic
Creativity
Death
Greatness
" The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street. "
Leo Buscaglia
Learning
Evil
Time
" I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. "
Shekhar Kapur
Death
Creativity
Life
" 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