"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet"

Eliot, George on death   

"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

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

Eliot, George on death
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"The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets."

Dyer, Wayne on death   

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

Einstein, Albert on death
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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."

Durrell, Lawrence on death   

"He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew."

Dryden, John on death   

"Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end."

Dryden, John on death   

"Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright."

Ellis, Alice Thomas on death
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"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat."

Conrad, Joseph on death   

"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."

Colton, Charles Caleb on death   

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

Cicero, Marcus T. on death
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"Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell."

Beecher, Henry Ward on death   

"Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun."

Belloc, Hilaire on death
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"Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable."

Bhagavad Gita on death
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"As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]"

Bible on death   

"For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]"

Bible on death   

"Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]"

Bible on death   

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]"

Bible on death   

"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death   

"I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead."

Buffett, Jimmy on death
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"The fear of death is worse than death."

Burton, Robert on death
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"For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest."

Byron, Lord on death   

"I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust."

Byron, Lord on death   

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

Byron, Lord on death
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"There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."

Camus, Albert on death   

"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death."

Camus, Albert on death   

"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely."

Camus, Albert on death   

"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."

Cary, Joyce on death
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"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

Beaumont, Francis on death
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"Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything."

Epictetus on death
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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls."

Epicurus on death
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"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever."

Keats, John on death   

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

King Jr. Martin Luther on death
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"We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us."

Landers, Ann on death   

"I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart."

Landor, Walter Savage on death   

"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?"

Lewis, C. S. on death
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"I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on death   

"Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free."

Lowell, James Russell on death   

"But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end."

Lowell, James Russell on death