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• To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

  Gautama Buddha

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in People

• The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

  George Sewell

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Coward

• All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Hardships

• I support the death penalty. But I also think there has to be no margin for error.

  George Ryan

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Penalty

• Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious – and therefore immoral – I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  George Ryan

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Penalty, System

• There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it’s like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there’s a certain energy that attracts that.

  Rose McGowan

  Topics in Death, Family

  Tags in Energy

• Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.

  Cat Stevens

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Actually, Law

• Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

  James Stephens

  Topics in Death, Perfection

  Tags in Finality

• Death is a very important part of life.

  GG Allin

  Topics in Death

• God grants an easy death only to the just.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Topics in Death, God

• I’d be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I’d like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

  Brian Molko

  Topics in Death, Life

  Tags in Hate

• Failure? Scared to death of it.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Topics in Death, Failure

• People don’t want to talk about death, just like they don’t want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

  Dan Farmer

  Topics in Death

• When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, “I have arrived.” Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  Yul Brynner

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Feeling

• Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

  Yul Brynner

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Feeling

• If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

  William Jennings Bryan

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Spirit

• And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

  William Cullen Bryant

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Sun

• All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom.

  William Cullen Bryant

  Topics in Death, Inspirational, Life

• There is nothing glamorous about death.

  Roger Moore

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Glamorous

• I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

  Kurt Cobain

  Topics in Death, Soul

  Tags in Happy