Quotes about death




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

Whitman, Walt on death    Share


"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    Share

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

Woolf, Virginia on death    Share

"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    Share

"Virtue alone has majesty in death."

Young, Edward on death    Share

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

Young, Edward on death    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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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"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    Share

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

Addison, Joseph on death    Share

"See in what peace a Christian can die."

Addison, Joseph on death    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"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    Share

"Truth sits upon the lips of dying men."

Arnold, Matthew on death    Share

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