Quotes about death

"Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies."

Thackeray, William M. on death   

"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."

Theroux, Paul on death
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"Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day."

Thomas, Dylan on death
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"Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."

Thomas, Dylan on death
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"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."

Thoreau, Henry David on death
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"But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?"

Thurber, James on death
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"Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead."

Thurber, James on death   

"At the moment of death there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. Terrified, you will flee from the radiance. Try to submerge it is an obstacle blocking the path of liberation. yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego. Recognize that the boundless light of this true reality is your own true self, and you shall be saved!"

Tibetan on death
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"But the peasants -- how do the peasants die?"

Tolstoy, Count Leo on death   

"I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood."

Torrey, R. A. on death
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"Death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life."

Traver, Amos on death
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"Having seen and felt the end, you have willed the means to the realization of the end."

Troward, Thomas on death   

"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"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."

Twain, Mark on death
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"We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death."

Unknown, Source on death
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"When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us."

Unknown, Source on death
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"To fear death is to misunderstand life."

Unknown, Source on death
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"Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes."

Unknown, Source on death
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"Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others."

Unknown, Source on death
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"It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable."

Unknown, Source on death
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"God's retirement plan is out of this world"

Unknown, Source on death
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"When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car."

Handey, Jack on death   

"A good man dies when a boy goes wrong."

Unknown, Source on death   

"What is here is also there; what is there, is also here. Who sees multiplicity but not the one indivisible Self must wander on and on from death to death."

Upanishad, Katha on death   

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man."

Ussher, Percival Arland on death   

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."

Dyke, Henry Van on death
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"In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the"

Vaneigem, Raoul on death   

"Dear me! I must be turning into a god."

Vespasian on death   

"I have lived, and I have run the course which fortune allotted me; and now my shade shall descend illustrious to the grave."

Virgil on death
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"Death twitches my ear. Live, he says, I am coming."

Virgil on death
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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."

Voltaire on death
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"Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart]"

Wallace, William on death
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"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."

Warhol, Andy on death
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"God buries His workmen but carries on His work."

Wesley, Charles on death   

"Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death."

Whitefield, George on death