John Dryden Quotes

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

Nothing graces the Christian soul so much as mercy; mercy as shown chiefly towards the poor, that thou mayest treat them as sharers in common with thee in the produce of nature, which brings forth the fruits of the earth for use to all.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.

All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.

I did not want bloodshed. I did not want my people killed. I did not want anybody killed....I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough

I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.

I die really well, by the way. It's one of my strong points. I just take a bullet well.

I have a tattoo on my arm that says, 'Would you be proud to die this way?' And that's my reminder to continue to treat people well and love people, and if I took my last breath right now, would I be happy with who I am?

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

Death is never easy when you know the people doing the dying.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder.

Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying.

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.