Quotes on death
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death? No death may be called futile.
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Yukio Mishima Quotes
The first condition of immortality is death.
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Unknown Author Quotes
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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Mark Twain Quotes
Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.
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Henry Van Dyke Quotes
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
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Voltaire Quotes
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Not going home is already like death.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
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Mark Twain Quotes
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Quotes
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.
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Unknown Author Quotes
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
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Walt Whitman Quotes
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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William Penn Quotes
The goal of all life is death.
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Sigmund Freud Quotes
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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Maurice Maeterlinck Quotes
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
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Unknown Author Quotes
I believe if I should die, and you were to walk near my grave, from the very depths of the earth I would hear your footsteps.
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Benito Perez Galdos Quotes
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
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Mortimer Collins Quotes
Far or forgot to me is near;Shadow and sunlight are the same;The vanished gods to me appear;And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out;When me they fly, I am the wings;I am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings
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Epicurus Quotes
If we don't know life, how can we know death
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Confucius Quotes
He can be lethal death.
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Jerry Coleman Quotes
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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Mark Twain Quotes
I thought I loved him, but I really just needed him. There was so much death and when I was in bed with him, I wasn't thinking about death. Look, what I'm trying to say is that we can't know what's in another person's heart, we can't even know what's in our own. Life turns on a dime, and somehow we muddle through.
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Sybil Adelman Quotes
Here at last. We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built. Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
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Sylvia Plath Quotes
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
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Andy Rooney Quotes
And we live in an amazing world. And yet, in the midst of our world, there's a lot of folks who are dying and will die.
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George W. Bush Quotes
When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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Willa Cather Quotes
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
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J.J. Furnas Quotes
More Muslims have died at the hands of killers than - I say more Muslims - a lot of Muslims have died - I don't know the exact count - at Istanbul. Look at these different places around the world where there's been tremendous death and destruction because killers kill.
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George W. Bush Quotes
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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Erik H. Erikson Quotes
Cowards die many times before their deaths The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh.
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Marcus Aurelius Quotes
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
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Madame de Stael Quotes
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Edvard Munch Quotes
Death in itself is nothing but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
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John Dryden Quotes
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
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Marlene Dietrich Quotes
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
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Woody Allen Quotes
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.
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Philip Dow Quotes
Death is a debt we all must pay.
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Euripides Quotes
Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go.
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Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.
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Marcel Proust Quotes
What is it about death that bothers me so much? Probably the hours.
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Woody Allen Quotes
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
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Thomas Mann Quotes
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
A man can die but once.
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William Shakespeare Quotes
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
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John James Ingalls Quotes
There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it.
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Aeschylus Quotes
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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Doris Day Quotes
It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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Leonardo DaVinci Quotes
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.
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Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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J. K. Rowling Quotes
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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Unknown Author Quotes
There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.
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Kenneth Patchen Quotes
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
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J. D. Salinger Quotes
Men die, but does Cloquet die? This question puzzled him, but a few simple line drawings on a pad done by one of the guards set the whole thing clear.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Susan Ertz Quotes
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.
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Jacques Rigaut Quotes
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
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Edward Young Quotes
Death is not the worst thing rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
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Sophocles Quotes
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
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Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Quotes
There are worst things than death. If you've ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman, you know exactly what I mean.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
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Bill Maher Quotes
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
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Ashley Montagu Quotes
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
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Unknown Author Quotes
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper.
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Robert Alton Harris Quotes
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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Francis Bacon Quotes
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
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Unknown Author Quotes
In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.
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John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets.
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Wilson Mizner Quotes
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
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Plato Quotes
Repetition is the death of art.
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Unknown Author Quotes
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
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Woody Allen Quotes
The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.
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Woody Allen Quotes
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
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Stewart Alsop Quotes
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
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Charles Sanders Peirce Quotes
Nothing in the world is as certain as death.
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Unknown Author Quotes
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
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James Shirley Quotes
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
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Samuel Butler Quotes
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
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Euripides Quotes
Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
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Herodotus Quotes
And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds.
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Homer Quotes
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then one day you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
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Denis Leary Quotes
On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.
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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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J.K. Rowling Quotes
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
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Friedrich von Schiller Quotes
Do not go gentle into that good night,
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Walt Whitman Quotes
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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Woody Allen Quotes
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
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Horace Quotes