Quotes about death

"So that he seemed not to relinquish life, but to leave one home for another."

Nepos, Cornelius on death   

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss."

Osborne, John on death   

"An evil life is a kind of death."

Ovid on death
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"If only I could understand the reason for my crying. If only I could stop this fear of dreaming that I'm dying."

Palmer, Laura on death   

"Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!"

Palmerston, Lord on death   

"He that lives to forever, never fears dying."

Penn, William on death   

"He has gone over to the majority."

Petronius on death   

"O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living."

Philip II on death   

"Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death."

Picabia, Francis on death   

"dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."

Plath, Sylvia on death   

"Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

Plato on death   

"Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?"

Plato on death   

"He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on death   

"Life is one of the most important causes of death. "

Kocher, Gerhard on death   

"Life is a loss of time. "

Kocher, Gerhard on death   

"Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace? "

Kocher, Gerhard on death   

"I answer the heroic question "Death where is thy sting?" "It is here in my heart and mind and memories" "

Angelou, Maya on death   

"We bloomed in Spring. Our bodies are the leaves of God. The apparent seasons of life and death our eyes can suffer; but our souls, dear, I will just say this forthright: they are God Himself, we will never perish until He does."

Teresa of Avila, St. on death   

"Every day people are born and people die. Human beings come into this world and leave it - most without their names being immortalized in any history books. Millions of people have lived and worked and loved and died without making any great claims to fame or fortune. But they aren't forgotten - not by their friends, not by their families. And some of these people, some very special people, are not forgotten even by those who harldy knew them."

Unknown, Source on death   

"I urge everyone against choosing their dying words ahead of time. I said mine years ago and now I look like quite the fool."

Wakcher, Michael on death   

"Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality."

Parslow, Eric on death
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"This is pretty strange, not poems, poems are pretty good. "

Dye, James on death   

"So many people die young. I'm hoping that's unintended."

Dye, James on death   

" It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task. "

-Virgil on death   

"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."

Thoreau, Henry David on death   

"One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death   

"For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain, ’T is somewhat late to trouble. This I know— I should live the same life over, if I had to live again; And the chances are I go where most men go. "

Gordon, Adam Lindsay on death   

"We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!"

Anderson, Gillian on death   

"When a man has died, he wants you to know about it."

King, Stephen on death   

"His was the face you could never quite see, his the hands which dealt all the spades from a dead deck, his the eyes beyond the flames, his the grin from beyond the grave of the world."

King, Stephen on death   

"the screams of the addicted without their addictions. the screams of the dead who are somehow still alive."

Unknown on death   

"my amends will be my death."

Unknown on death   

"God looks at us from above, life looks at us from behind, but death always looks at us in the face."

Dumitrascu, Nicoleta on death   

"I was dead when i was born,for others i will die and i will live on in them."

Laske on death   

"Life is like highway,you dont know what will happen on that road, you just know when you reach STOP sing that you are no longer on that road."

Laske on death   

"Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death."

Sorin Cerin on death   

" Your soul fountain will never drain until the instant of eternity will halt before it to drink the water of death."

Sorin Cerin on death   

"We are born more dead than when we die after we have searched death through the storm of the instants of our entire life."

Sorin Cerin on death