Famous Quotes

"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."

Willa Cather 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 Willa Cather

• "Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

• "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

• "Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."

• "The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."

• "Where there is great love, there are always wishes."