Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape. "

Related Quotes:

" The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. "

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

" Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory. "

Theodor W. Adorno

" I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. "

Christopher Hitchens

" Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep. "

" 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

" Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior. "

" I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. "

Mattie Stepanek

" Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" In Mexico, you're close to death all the time. "

Guillermo del Toro

" The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. "

Mary Catherine Bateson

" When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do. "

Guillermo del Toro

" It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need. "

" Grumbling is the death of love. "

Marlene Dietrich

" Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness. "

" The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death. "

" I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies. "

" Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day. "

" The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. "

Theodore Parker

" Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. "

" If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. "

" What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. "

" If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved. "

" I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning. "

Benjamin Franklin

" I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit. "

" One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. "

" I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. "

Muqtada al Sadr

" Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. "

" Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun. "

" Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. "