Quotes about death




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"Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death
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"Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death    Share

"We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases."

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"Death is the cure for all diseases."

Browne, Sir Thomas on death    Share

"For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on death    Share

"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."

Bryant, William C. on death    Share

"I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead."

Buffett, Jimmy on death
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"The fear of death is worse than death."

Burton, Robert on death
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"To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all."

Butler, Samuel on death    Share

"If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death."

Butler, Samuel on death    Share

"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

Butler, Samuel on death    Share

"There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death."

Butler, Samuel on death    Share

"For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest."

Byron, Lord on death    Share

"I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust."

Byron, Lord on death    Share

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

Byron, Lord on death
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"There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."

Camus, Albert on death    Share

"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death."

Camus, Albert on death    Share

"Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely."

Camus, Albert on death    Share

"He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it."

Canetti, Elias on death    Share

"For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off."

Carson, Johnny on death    Share

"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."

Cary, Joyce on death
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"Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others."

Certeau, Michel De on death    Share

"Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other."

Cervantes, Miguel De on death    Share

"'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens."

Cervantes, Miguel De on death    Share

"What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you."

Chandler, Raymond on death    Share

"Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already."

Chandler, Raymond on death    Share

"He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it."

Charles II on death    Share

"We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being."

Chopra, Deepak on death    Share

"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

Churchill, Winston on death
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"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."

Cicero, Marcus T. on death
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"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."

Cicero, Marcus T. on death
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"I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead."

Cocteau, Jean on death    Share

"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."

Cocteau, Jean on death    Share

"An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!"

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on death    Share

"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."

Colton, Charles Caleb on death    Share

"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat."

Conrad, Joseph on death    Share

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on death
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"These have not the hope to die."

Dante Alighieri on death    Share

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