Famous Quotes

"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

William Cowper on Death

More quotes about Death

• "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Death

• "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."

  Buddha on Death

• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

  Albert Einstein on Death

• "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

  Mark Twain on Death

• "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

  Helen Keller on Death

More quotes by William Cowper

• "The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged."

• "Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too."

• "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm."

• "Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."

• "Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose."