Life & Death Sayings

325 sayings found from 325 authors

Death dances around my bed at night.

— Frida Kahlo 1926
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My empire is built on blood and iron, but sustained by loyalty and discipline.

— Genghis Khan Unknown
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Speak not evil of the absent, for it is a sure way to lose the confidence of all present.

— George Washington c. 1747
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Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

— Andy Warhol c. 1970s-1980s
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

— Winston Churchill 1940
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We must not only be good at destroying the old world, we must also be good at building the new.

— Mao Zedong 1949
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself. And a few other things, like the Japanese, the Germans, and the Italians.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt c. 1941
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I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

— Mahatma Gandhi 1928
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There is nothing I fear more than doing nothing, yet that is exactly what I am doing.

— Nelson Mandela 1976
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He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.

— Martin Luther King Jr. 1958
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I have no fear of death, only of dishonor.

— Cleopatra 30 BCE
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I am not a fan of the telephone. It is a devil's instrument.

— Queen Victoria c. 1880s
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God's death! I will have but one mistress here and no master.

— Elizabeth I Circa 1560s
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I would rather suffer a hundred times than be a slave.

— Catherine the Great Uncertain
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I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.

— Taylor Swift 2010 (approximate)
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Better to die with honor than to live in shame.

— Charlemagne c. 800
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I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of a bad reputation.

— Peter the Great Early 18th century
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The struggle for power is a struggle for life and death.

— Leon Trotsky circa 1917-1920
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We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

— Che Guevara Unknown
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The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

— Jawaharlal Nehru 1950s
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