Quotes about death

"To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier."

Whitman, Walt on death   

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death."

Whitman, Walt on death
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"One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready."

Williams, Robin on death
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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on death
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"Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best."

Wolfe, Thomas on death   

"Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"

Woolf, Virginia on death   

"No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees."

Wordsworth, William on death
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"I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death."

Yeats, William Butler on death
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"In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them."

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny on death   

"Virtue alone has majesty in death."

Young, Edward on death   

"All men think that all men are mortal but themselves."

Young, Edward on death   

"No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil."

Zeno, Citium on death
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"Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you."

Allen, Fred A. on death   

"Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay."

Book Of Common Prayer on death   

"Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on death
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"But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on death   

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on death
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"'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays."

Khayyam, Omar on death   

"Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror."

Lawrence, D. H. on death   

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on death
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"Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death."

Pasolini, Pier Paolo on death   

"As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass."

Thrale, Hester i on death
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"Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority."

Young, Edward on death   

"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them."

Addison, Joseph on death   

"See in what peace a Christian can die."

Addison, Joseph on death   

"I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

Allen, Woody on death
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"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down."

Allen, Woody on death   

"I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear."

Allen, Woody on death
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"There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network."

Almes, Guy on death
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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."

Alsop, Steward on death   

"Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject."

Arendt, Hannah on death   

"Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod."

Aristophanes on death   

"Nothing that is really good and God-like dies."

Arndt, Ernest Moritz on death
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"Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again."

Arnold, Matthew on death   

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

Arnold, Matthew on death