Lord Byron on Death
Friday, July 11th, 2008‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
- Lord Byron
‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
- Lord Byron
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik H. Erikson
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Edward W. Howe
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Alice Walker
You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.
- Medgar Evers
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
- Willa Cather
A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- Ashley Montagu
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
- Mark Twain