Quotes about death

"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on death
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"Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last."

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

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Is death the last step? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death   

"The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man."

Seattle, Chief on death   

"I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade."

Seeger, Alan on death   

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

Seneca on death
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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca on death
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."

Seneca on death
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"I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death."

Shakespeare, William on death   

"The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"I want to be all used up when I die."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."

Shaw, George Bernard on death   

"How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on death
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"He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on death   

"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on death
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"If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times."

Smith, Dean on death
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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates on death
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"To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?"

Socrates on death
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

Socrates on death
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"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied."

Sontag, Susan on death   

"A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning."

Sontag, Susan on death   

"For the dead there are no more toils."

Sophocles on death   

"If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs."

Spark, Muriel on death
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"When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on death
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"In my end is my beginning."

Stuart, Mary on death
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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

Swift, Jonathan on death
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"Authority forgets a dying king."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on death   

"God's finger touched him and he slept."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on death
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