Death Quotes and Sayings
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Call no man happy till he is dead. Aeschylus
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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts. Aeschylus
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It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. Anna Akhmatova
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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. Stewart Alsop
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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. Ernst Moritz Arndt
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. W. H. Auden
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. Abu Bakr
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. Daniel Barenboim
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For me, habit is just a synonym for death. Juliette Binoche
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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
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Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. Bertolt Brecht
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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
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The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them. Lois McMaster Bujold
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Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. Carter Burwell
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. Samuel Butler
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'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. Lord Byron
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If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead. Scott Caan
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. Marcus Tullius Cicero
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory. Adam Clarke
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Jean Cocteau
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination. Barry Cornwall
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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. Clarence Darrow
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When you're dead, you're dead. That's it. Marlene Dietrich
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Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live. Henry Van Dyke
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot
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I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different. T. S. Eliot
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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright. Alice Thomas Ellis
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. Quintus Ennius
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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. Epicurus
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. Erik H. Erikson
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. Susan Ertz
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No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. Euripides
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He who doesn't fear death dies only once. Giovanni Falcone
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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies. Gustave Flaubert
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Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure. Errol Flynn
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Man always dies before he is fully born. Erich Fromm
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. David Gerrold
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. Khalil Gibran
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Fling but a stone, the giant dies. Matthew Green
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The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. Arlo Guthrie
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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Joseph Hall
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Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. B. R. Hayden
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Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. Katharine Hepburn
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Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. Horace
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. Edward W. Howe
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Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. Elbert Hubbard
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All architects want to live beyond their deaths. Philip Johnson
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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
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A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death. Annie Lennox
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck
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Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." Bill Maher
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. W. Somerset Maugham
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Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. Bryant H. McGill
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The idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley Montagu
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. Edvard Munch
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John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time. Maureen O'Hara
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. J. Robert Oppenheimer
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For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. William Penn
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What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Pike
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. David Sarnoff
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Everything that gets born dies. Morrie Schwartz
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Death's in the good-bye. Anne Sexton
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A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. Miguel de Unamuno
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Man dies of cold, not of darkness. Miguel de Unamuno
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While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. Leonardo da Vinci
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. Alice Walker
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When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead. John Greenleaf Whittier
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. Elie Wiesel
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. Elie Wiesel
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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. Tennessee Williams
