Tag Archive for death

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
- Sun Tzu

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo da Vinci

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Our life is made by the death of others.
- Leonardo da Vinci

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
- Maya Angelou

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.
- Desmond Tutu

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
- Bob Marley

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
- Muhammad Ali

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.
- Rumi