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Death Quotations

  1. "Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul."
    --Juliette Adam

  2. "I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. "
    -- Woody Allen

  3. "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!"
    -- Woody Allen

  4. "It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
    -- Woody Allen

  5. "The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind."
    -- John Allston

  6. "I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."
    --Maya Angelou

  7. "Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."
    -- Francis Bacon

  8. "What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
    -- Dave Barry

  9. "Now comes the mystery."
    -- Henry Ward Beecher

  10. "Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
    --Stephen Vincent Benet

  11. "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return."
    -- Bible - Genesis 3:19

  12. "Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh."
    -- Robert Bolt

  13. "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
    -- Napoleon Bonaparte

  14. "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live."
    -- Joan Borysenko

  15. "He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door."
    -- Heywood Brown

  16. "Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."
    -- Buddha

  17. "Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds."
    -- Buddha

  18. "Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile."
    -- Julie Burchill

  19. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die."
    --Thomas Campbell

  20. "I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."
    -- Joyce Cary

  21. "I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."
    -- Willa Cather

  22. "I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
    -- Winston Churchill

  23. "Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."
    --Charles C. Colton

  24. "Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
    --Norman Cousins

  25. "Our life is made by the death of others."
    -- Leonardo da Vinci

  26. "On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain."
    -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  27. "He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."
    -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  28. "Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well."
    -- Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo

  29. "Unable are the Loved to die - For Love is Immortality."
    -- Emily Dickinson

  30. "This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living."
    --Tyron Edwards

  31. "Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day."
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  32. "What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?"
    -- Euripedes

  33. "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."
    -- Epicurus

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

  35. "We who are left how shall we look again Happily on the sun or feel the rain Without remembering how they who went Ungrudgingly and spent Their lives for us loved, too, the sun and rain?"
    -- Wilfred Wilson Gibson

  36. "Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind."
    -- Häfiz

  37. "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
    -- Nathan Hale

  38. "He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."
    -- J. Heller

  39. "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!"
    -- Patrick Henry

  40. "How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty."
    -- Eric Hoffer

  41. "Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."
    -- Oliver Wendell Holmes

  42. "Tis after death that we measure men."
    -- James Barron Hope

  43. "To stop sinning suddenly."
    -- Elbert Hubbard

  44. "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."
    -- John James Ingalls

  45. "A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."
    -- Thomas Mann

  46. "Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it."
    -- W. Somerset Maugham

  47. "Death teaches us to live; it gives us a boundary to map our living within. Death's hammer breaks through the mirror separating us from light."
    --David Meltzer

  48. "Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good."
    -- William Mitford

  49. "Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved."
    -- Iris Murdoch

  50. "We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven."
    -- Russell M. Nelson

  51. "I am become death, shatterer of worlds."
    -- Robert J. Oppenheimer

  52. "How could they tell?"
    -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died

  53. "He that lives to forever, never fears dying."
    -- William Penn

  54. "Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."
    -- Proverb

  55. "There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing worth killing for."
    -- Tom Robbins

  56. "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."
    -- Bertrand Russell

  57. "Most people would rather die than think: many do."
    -- Bertrand Russell

  58. "Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
    -- A. Sachs

  59. "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. "
    -- George Santayana

  60. "Death--the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."
    -- Walter Scott

  61. "A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor."
    -- Seneca

  62. "Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."
    -- William Shakespeare

  63. "Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple...Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond."
    -- George Bernard Shaw

  64. "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
    -- George Bernard Shaw

  65. "Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box."
    -- Wil Shriner

  66. "Death is the gate of life."
    --St. Bernard of Clairvaux

  67. "The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
    -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

  68. "Birth and death are like ships: why do we rejoice over a ship setting out on a journey when we know not the she may encounter on the seas? We should rejoice when the ship returns safely to the port."
    --Midrash Tanhuma

  69. "Early to rise and early to bed. Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead."
    -- James Thurber

  70. "I'm not going to die, I'm going home Like a shooting star."
    --Sojourner Truth

  71. "A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential"-there was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster."
    -- Mark Twain

  72. "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."
    -- Mark Twain

  73. "I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car."
    -- Unknown

  74. "Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
    -- Henry Van Dyke

  75. "They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, That all of thee we loved and cherished Has with thy summer roses perished; And left, as its young beauty fled, An ashen memory in its stead."
    -- John Greenleaf Whittier

  76. "I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done."
    --Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  77. "I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street."
    -- Virginia Woolf

  78. "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
    -- Emiliano Zapata



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