“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Benjamin Franklin (verified)
“No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it’s not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.”
— Winston Churchill (verified)“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”
— Leonardo da Vinci (verified)“Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Death is a dreamless sleep.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Let us not weep for those who have gone away when their lives were at full bloom and beauty. Who are we that we should mourn them and wish them back? Life at its every stage is good, but who shall say whether those who die in the splendor of their prime are not fortunate to have known no abatement, no dulling of the flame by ash, no slow fading of life’s perfect flower.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“I will not be triumphed over.”
— Cleopatra (unverified)