Quotes about Death, page 5

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, while those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Quote by Albert Camus about death

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about death

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about death

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of...

Quote by Albert Camus about death

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

Quote by Albert Camus about death

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

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about death

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

Quote by Albert Camus about death

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Quote by Albert Camus about death

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

Quote by Albert Camus about death

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Quote by Albert Camus about death

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Quote by Albert Camus about death

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

Quote by Orson Scott about death

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about death

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about death

Kids die now by either murder or accident - no disease on any scale except rare diseases and they're an anomaly.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about death

Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about death

We have been permitted to turn our back on the frailty of life. I mean we live so much longer, and the constant presence of death is part of life.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about death

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Quote by Alexander Dumas about death

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about death

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about death