Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. – Daniel Barenboim
Fling but a stone, the giant dies. – Matthew Green
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. – Albert Einstein
Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death. – Buddha
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. – Mark Twain
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. – Buddha
Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once. – William Shakespeare
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. – Mark Twain
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires. – Nelson Mandela
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. – Jim Morrison
Death is a fearful thing. – William Shakespeare
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom. – Mahatma Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith. – Mahatma Gandhi
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. – Oscar Wilde
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. – William Shakespeare
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde
The valiant never taste of death but once. – William Shakespeare
Biography lends to death a new terror. – Oscar Wilde
