Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit. "
Davy Crockett
Death
Complaining
Enemy
Related Quotes:
" Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. "
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love
Guidance
Surrender
" 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
" Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God. "
Dayananda Saraswati
Happiness
Pain
Life
" I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. "
Mark Twain
Sent
Death
Saying
" The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me. "
Simon Schama
Want
Death
Golf
" Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. "
Christopher Fry
May
Birth
Death
" I think everyone understands grief, the journey it takes us on, whether it's the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a disappointment. Some people don't deal with it, the power of it. Some do. Some feel the weight of it and it informs their choices. I've had to open up to grief in different contexts. "
Tori Amos
Relationship
Death
End
" I was personally opposed to the death penalty, and yet I think I have probably asked for the death penalty more than most people in the United States. "
Janet Reno
Death Penalty
People
Think
" Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky. "
Solon
Lucky
Death
Happy
" I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. "
Mary Schmich
Gift
Mother
Grief
" And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! "
William Shakespeare
Myself
Die
Death
" 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
" The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. "
Bertrand Russell
Time
Death
Worship
" My mother used to tell me about vibrations. I didn't really understand too much of what that meant when I was just a boy. To think that invisible feelings, invisible vibrations existed scared me to death. "
Brian Wilson
Mother
Boy
Feelings
" Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. "
Marcus Aurelius
Nature
Birth
Death
" Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition. "
Stanislav Grof
Experience
Death
Welcome
" Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. "
Noam Chomsky
Aggression
Common Sense
Death
" A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. "
Jesse Jackson
Daily
Man
Death
" For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets bad lost, the way home is just the way he don't think it is. This rule will hit nine times out of ten. "
Davy Crockett
Home
Lost
Think
" If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. "
Maya Angelou
Die
Self
Respect
" The man who buried Malcolm X - my Muslim imam, priest - he, after I got beat up by police... came to me, and he said, 'You don't need this American name.' And I was susceptible to it at the time because, God knows, I had just gotten whipped near to death. So he gave me an Arab name; he gave me the name Amir Barakat. "
Amiri Baraka
Time
American
Death
" The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. "
George Meredith
Love Is
Most
Death
" Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. "
George Eliot
Music
Pain
Death
" Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. "
Francis Bacon
Fear
Dark
Children
" If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference', you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes. "
Joseph Stalin
Government
New
Death
" If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked. "
P. J. O'Rourke
Heard
Death
Somebody
" It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. "
Epicurus
Live
Death
Men
" Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life. "
Dag Hammarskjold
You
Life
Body
" Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death. "
Alexander De Croo
Birth
Learning
Learn
" For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point. "
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Me
Think
Life