Quotes about death




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"The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living."

Auden, W. H. on death    Share


"To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies."

Auerbach, Red on death
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"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

Aurelius, Marcus on death    Share

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

Aurelius, Marcus on death    Share

"It is natural to die as to be born."

Bacon, Francis on death    Share

"It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other."

Bacon, Francis on death    Share

"I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."

Bacon, Francis on death    Share

"As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to."

Bagnold, Enid on death    Share

"Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have."

Baldwin, James on death    Share

"When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!"

Barbauld, Anna Letitia on death    Share

"I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below."

Bardot, Brigitte on death    Share

"To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!"

Barker, Clive on death    Share

"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others."

Barrie, Sir James M. on death
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"To die will be an awfully big adventure."

Barrie, Sir James M. on death
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"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."

Barrymore, John on death
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"Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale into insignificance."

Bayly, Joseph on death
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"Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed."

Bayly, Joseph on death    Share

"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

Beaumont, Francis on death
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"There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence."

Becht, Ben on death    Share

"Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must."

Beckett, Samuel on death    Share

"Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell."

Beecher, Henry Ward on death    Share

"Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;"

Beecher, Henry Ward on death
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"Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun."

Belloc, Hilaire on death
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"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."

Berra, Yogi on death
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"Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable."

Bhagavad Gita on death
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"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]"

Bible on death
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"As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep. [Job 14:11-12]"

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"For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. [1 Timothy 6:7]"

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"Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. [Psalms 39:4]"

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"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]"

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"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]"

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"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]"

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"Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [Psalms 116:15]"

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"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. [1 Corinthians 15:26]"

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"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on death    Share

"Most of us die with much of our beautiful music still in us, un-sung, un-played."

Bright, Grant M. on death
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"How long after you are gone will ripples remain as evidence that you were cast into the pool of life?"

Bright, Grant M. on death
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"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness."

Broch, Hermann on death    Share

"Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living."

Bronte, Emily on death    Share

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