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Quotations by Subject: Death (86 quotes)

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Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962), on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.: Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799), (Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775)
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC), The Old Man and Death
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While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits [of the dead]?...While you do not know life, how can you know about death?: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
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Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC), Agamemnon
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Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
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