Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: death

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

I'm a huge animal lover - I love animals to death. I've got tortoises and three dogs, and I've had a million animals in the past. I just think that we should do all we can to take care of them.

A few years after my father's death, my mother sent me to the United Kingdom for 'better prospects' in 1951. Those four years were not easy.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick is just a process of nature, and death is a process of nature, and being reborn through the soil is a process of nature.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

Birth was the death of him.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics.

I always say, complacency is the kiss of death.

Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

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

The first requisite for immortality is death.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don't know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.