Death

"Death is a distant rumor to the young"
-Andrew A. Rooney

"Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame"
-George Gordon


"God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath"
-John Donne


"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity"
-Seneca


"Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away"
-Horace

"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings"
-Socrates

"Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go"
-Jean de La Fontaine


"Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time"
-George Carlin


"Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death"
-Erik H. Erikson


"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon"
-Susan Ertz

"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men"
-Herodotus

"Death is a debt we all must pay"
-Euripides

"People living deeply have no fear of death"
-Anaiïs Nin

"Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor"
-Homer


"Death is the surest calculation that can be made"
-Ludwig Büchner


"Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit"
-Bill Maher


"Suicide is the sincerest form of criticism life gets"
-Wilfred Sheed


"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure"
-J.K. Rowling


"Death
As a dark Shadow
Beckons his prey
Into the unknown
By a soft whisper
In the soul"
-Cindy Cheney

"Death doesn't bargain"
-August Strindberg

"Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark"
-Bertrand Russell

"With death comes honesty"
-Salman Rushdie

"Death is when the monsters get you"
-Stephen King

"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life"
-Bertolt Brecht

Change

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor”
-Robert Frost

“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change”
-Bill Clinton

“Nothing is permanent but change”
-Heraclitus

“Everything is the same as always”
-Peter Weiss

“Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant”
-Benjamin Disraeli

“The more things change, the more they are the same”
-Alphonse Karr

“Things do not change; we change”
-Henry David Thoreau

“Change or die”
-Claudian

“Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep”
-William Cullen Bryant

“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation”
-Edmund Burke

“To change the name and not the letter,
Is a change for the worst, and not for the better“
-Robert Chambers

“Forward, forward let us range,
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change”
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Small change, small wonders--these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. It's a workable economy.”
-Barbara Kingsolver

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is always at some turning point”

-Irwin Edman


“The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable”

-John F


“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts”
-Arnold Bennett

Ambition

"Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend"
-Pierre Corneille

"Ambition -- it is the last infirmity of noble minds"
-J.M. Barrie

"On what strange stuff ambition feeds"
-Eliza Cook

"Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others"
-Susan Sontag

"Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes"
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods"
-Alexander Pope

"Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking"
-Edward Dahlberg

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition"
-James Madison

"Ambition can creep as well as soar"
-Edmund Burke

"Ambition is the ecclesiastical lust"
-Daniel Noonan

"Ambition never comes to an end"
-Yoshida Kenko

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy"
-Charlie McCarthy

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition"
-Timothy Leary

"Ambition is like love, impatient both of delays and rivals"
-Sir John Denham

"Big results require big ambitions"
-James Champy

"Ambition has no rest"
-Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton

"By low ambition and the thirst of praise"
-William Cowper'

"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy"
-Charlie McCarthy