Death unites as well as separates, it silences all paltry feeling.
Honore de BalzacI know not what others may choose but as for me give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick HenryThose who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.
Samuel ButlerEngland! awake! awake! awake! / Jerusalem thy sister calls! / Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death / And close her from thy ancient walls?
William BlakeWe are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Margaret MeadUntil we're educating every kid in a fantastic way until every inner city is cleaned up there is no shortage of things to do.
Bill GatesBiography lends to death a new terror.
Oscar WildeWhen death the great reconciler has come it is never our tenderness that we repent of but our severity.
George EliotHumanity should question itself once more about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.
Pope John Paul IIIf I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
Samuel ButlerMaro you' give me nothing while you live but after death you cry then you'll give, If thou art not indeed turned arrant ass Thou know'st what I desire to come to pass
Marcus AureliusThe leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave BarryBut as to women who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love their virtue beauty education but form good housekeepers to breed a nation.
Lord ByronAt a formal dinner party the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George CarlinIt seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
John SteinbeckAll tragedies are finished by a death All comedies are ended by a marriage
Lord ByronI find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho MarxThe goal of all life is death.
Sigmund FreudIt is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo BuscagliaMy other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert then joined the army. The first time he saluted he killed himself.
Henny YoungmanWhere is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
Barry GoldwaterDeath comes as a heavy blow when known too well to others you die unknown to yourself.
Francis BaconAnd I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
Walt WhitmanVirtue is the fragrance of the flowers which the tree of life puts forth. Educated people must be identified in society by their strict adherence to virtue not by more skilled methods of escaping the consequences of vice.
Sai BabaIt is old age rather than death that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Simone de BeauvoirThose who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them, for these only gave them life those the art of living well.
AristotleEven in the valley of the shadow of death two and two do not make six.
Leo TolstoyWe get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert CamusLet us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy etc. and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel ButlerDeath is the wish of some the relief of many and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere's nothing wrong in suffering if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. WellsWhen we have lost everything including hope life becomes a disgrace and death a duty.
W. C. FieldsWe should always deal cautiously with fire water women foolish people serpents and members of a royal family, for they may when the occasion presents itself at once bring about our death.
ChanakyaI look forward to death with great anticipation to meeting God face to face.
Billy GrahamMust not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
PlatoDeath obsesses me yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really I'm just a little more out about it.
J. K. RowlingThe nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood until the time comes for them to depart this life again like children neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Desiderius ErasmusIt is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossDeath may call any moment Every moment everyone is nearing death.
Sai BabaThe first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed clothed fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.
John RuskinIt is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.
EpictetusMost people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar WildeAn unused life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody AllenPersonally I would be delighted if there were a life after death especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl SaganOld age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.
Francois de La RochefoucauldDeath gives us sleep eternal youth and immortality.
Jean PaulIf you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Kurt CobainI've got no interest in educating or instructing people.
Tom StoppardIf every man on Earth could take with him on death even a handful of mud from the Earth, there would have been nothing much left and mud would have been rationed at so many ounces per head!
Sai BabaWe need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts and to stand by their convictions even to the very death.
Robert Green IngersollEither the Government must have the capacity to educate and reform the people or the people must have the capacity to educate the Government.
Sai BabaIt has ever been since time began and ever will be till time lose breath that love is a mood - no more - to man and love to a woman is life or death.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxThe whole notion of journalism being an institution whose fundamental purpose is to educate and inform and even one might say elevate has altered under commercial pressure perhaps into a different kind of purpose which is to divert and distract and entertain.
Tom StoppardEducate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.
Thomas JeffersonLearning is a friend on the journey, a wife in the house, medicine in sickness, and religious merit is the only friend after death.
ChanakyaIn India we only read about death sickness terrorism crime.
Abdul KalamIf death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck PalahniukThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan PoeI've told my children that when I die to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossYou can change your world by changing your words... Remember death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel OsteenTo run away from trouble is a form of cowardice, and while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
AristotleA nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Death is a very dull dreary affair and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset MaughamAchieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn RandLife inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
Emile M. CioranThere's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Dwight D. EisenhowerDespise not death but welcome it for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus AureliusI spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray BradburyIt's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody AllenTrue 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.
StendhalDeath 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.
Marcus AureliusDeath is not a deplorable event It is the journey Sai Baba
The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan PoeFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest HemingwayLife and death are one thread the same line viewed from different sides.
Lao TzuThose who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
Wilson MiznerWhen I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
Winston ChurchillCourage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John WayneMontreal is a very cosmopolitan sophisticated erudite educated glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.
William ShatnerIn every parting there is an image of death.
George EliotNo true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Jean-Jacques RousseauDeath is frightening and so is Eternal Life.
Mason CooleyA new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn, it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
OvidDeath is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
OvidWhat do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
Woody AllenDeath is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George CarlinDeath is a fearful thing.
William ShakespeareIt is possible to provide security against other ills but as far as death is concerned we men live in a city without walls.
EpicurusThe only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
Will RogersThe symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm, resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Deepak ChopraWe cast away priceless time in dreams born of imagination fed upon illusion and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandOn neither the sun nor death can a man look fixedly.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMen do not accept their prophets and slay them but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor DostoevskyAlas I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar WildeOh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
Francis BaconThe message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?
Rush LimbaughNo Birth, No death.
Sai BabaMy personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Ray BradburyThe U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
Bill GatesHis dying seemed to give total strangers a sense of integrity they never had wanted while he was alive.
Kurt CobainAfter your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur SchopenhauerDeath comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBroadly speaking human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death
Winston ChurchillOf all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
AeschylusFor children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
AeschylusFor death is not the worst but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
SophoclesThe stroke of death is as a lover's pinch which hurts and is desired.
William ShakespeareLight may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily.
Marcus AureliusDeath is a distant rumor to the young.
Andy RooneyWhich death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected".
Julius CaesarThat it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily DickinsonGod is without birth and death and is an eternal witness, you must strive hard to earn the love of God.
Sai BabaMendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Tennessee WilliamsI do not agree with what you have to say but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
VoltaireIf life must not be taken too seriously then so neither must death.
Samuel ButlerTo love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.
PlatoThere is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel ButlerDeath happens to the body with which it is associated with which it mixes. The delusion that the body is the core that the body is real that verily is the death.
Sai BabaThe most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Samuel ButlerDeath is a friend of ours, and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis BaconThe desire to die was my one and only concern, to it I have sacrificed everything even death.
Emile M. CioranIf 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 StalinOnly the educated are free.
EpictetusBecause I could not stop for death He kindly stopped for me, The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily DickinsonIs life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick HenryThe charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached even death.
Blaise PascalIt is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossI thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people including fundamentalists are quite intelligent many of them are highly educated and they should be treated with complete respect.
E. O. WilsonIf 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.For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.
Lord ByronGame shows are designed to make us feel better about the random useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck PalahniukGive me liberty or give me death.
Patrick HenryMadame all stories if continued far enough end in death and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest HemingwayWe have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades the desire and the will but not the money can still get the best education possible.
Barack ObamaFree enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty to help build a strong middle class to help educate our kids and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.
Mitt RomneyI were better to be eaten to death with a rust, than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
William ShakespeareMy dear child if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance upright conduct mercy cleanliness and truth.
ChanakyaIt cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune favor opportunity death of others occasion fitting virtue, but chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
Francis BaconI have often thought upon death and I find it the least of all evils.
Francis BaconMan lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
Mahatma GandhiFor 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 equilibrium.
Albert CamusLife is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac AsimovDeath doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. Somerset MaughamSince change is constant you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
Chuck PalahniukDeath has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
Donald RumsfeldDeath and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Oscar WildeDeath is one moment and life is so many of them.
Tennessee WilliamsLove we say is life, but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert HubbardDeath is an absolute marvel.
William ShatnerI've been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama - then candidate Obama - going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest I've seen well since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of 'til death do we part.
Mitt RomneyDeath is not the worst that can happen to men.
PlatoDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel JohnsonJustifying 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.
Ron PaulI had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. EliotI may neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I dislike, so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William ShakespeareGrumbling is the death of love.
Marlene DietrichIf we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?
Virginia WoolfNo evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death.
PlatoThe history of the world is the record of the weakness frailty and death of public opinion.
Samuel ButlerDeath hangs over thee While thou still live while thou may do good
Marcus AureliusA wicked wife a false friend a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.
ChanakyaFor a man who has done his natural duty death is as natural as sleep.
George SantayanaDeath is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.
Ambrose BierceThat which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Friedrich SchillerNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve JobsI do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Albert EinsteinA pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause and death ensued the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun and might if the latter were of an aggravated character return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
Oliver Wendell HolmesTo some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDeath is nothing but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon BonaparteIn the night of death hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Green IngersollI think you should defend to the death their right to march and then go down and meet them with baseball bats.
Woody AllenI'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
George CarlinI would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green IngersollDeath is but another stage of life. However long one suffers from illness or however severe the injury death can happen only when Time signals the right moment.
Sai BabaDeath is easier than a wretched life, and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.
AeschylusIf a man can bridge the gap between life and death if he can live on after he's dead then maybe he was a great man.
James DeanNot even old age knows how to love death.
SophoclesMinimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.
Chuck PalahniukOnce you start doing only what you've already proven you can do you're on the road to death.
Jerry SeinfeldIf we have been pleased with life we should not be displeased with death since it comes from the hand of the same master.
MichelangeloHe whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office, he who desires nothing cares not for bodily decorations, he who is only partially educated cannot speak agreeably, and he who speaks out plainly cannot be a deceiver.
ChanakyaIt is impossible that anything so natural so necessary and so universal as death should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan SwiftOnly a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.
George W. BushDeath does not concern us because as long as we exist death is not here. And when it does come we no longer exist.
EpicurusWe are living in 1937 and our universities I suggest are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization education graduation for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. WellsIf fame is only to come after death I am in no hurry for it
Marcus AureliusShrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Carl JungYou don't understand death you learn to acquiesce in death.
Joseph CampbellThe ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
Michel de MontaigneWe need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.
Colin PowellThe very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions the emotions - it becomes sterile silly and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis SingerA human body is associated with six stages of transformation: birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.
Sai BabaMen are convinced of your arguments your sincerity and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
Albert CamusDrown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death where is thy sting?
W. C. FieldsDeath is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel ButlerThe man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas JeffersonWe are becoming slaves to the process of birth and death. We should not allow ourselves to become slaves to this process. We should make an attempt to become one with the great effulgent spirit.
Sai BabaArt is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.
William BlakeYou hear a lot about God these days: God the beneficent, God the all-great, God the Almighty, God the most powerful, God the giver of life, God the creator of death. I mean we're hearing about God all the time so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God God is arbitrary.
Bob DylanNo matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one it still comes as a shock and it still hurts very deeply.
Billy GrahamIt is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams what's left?
Jim CarreyDeath they say acquits us of all obligations.
Michel de MontaigneWhenever death may surprise us let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Che GuevaraNothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin CoolidgeThe educated do not share a common body of information but a common state of mind.
Mason CooleyThe educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
AristotleIt is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
Gertrude SteinDeath is delightful. Death is dawn The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
James Russell LowellFor life and death are one even as the river and the sea are one.
Kahlil GibranWhat seems to be is to those to whom it seems to be and is productive of the most dreadful consequences to those to whom it seems to be even of torments despair eternal death.
William BlakeI think the race has everything. I think it has difficulty it has joy it has excitement it even has death.
Lance ArmstrongA strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
Edgar Allan PoeThere 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 MandelaI am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.
Pope John XXIIIDeath may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
Dwight L. MoodyOne death is a tragedy, one million is a statistic.
Joseph StalinLife is but a moment death also is but another.
Robert H. SchullerOther states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.
Ron WhiteThe most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young you get a gold watch you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs alcohol you party you get ready for high school. You go to grade school you become a kid you play you have no responsibilities you become a little baby you go back into the womb you spend your last nine months floating... ...and you finish off as an orgasm.
George CarlinOn the plus side death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Woody AllenThe rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Paul McCartneyWhile I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da VinciIt is the cause not the death that makes the martyr.
Napoleon BonaparteA belief in hell, and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton, have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous HuxleyI am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon.
Mitt Romney