Quotes about death




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"I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure."

Darrow, Clarence on death    Share


"I am not the least afraid to die."

Darwin, Charles R. on death    Share

"To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation."

Davis, Mrs Hubbard on death
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"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."

Dhammapada on death    Share

"Death doesn't frighten me."

Diana, Princess of Wales on death    Share

"He would make a lovely corpse."

Dickens, Charles on death    Share

"Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"Dying is a wild night and a new road."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"Let us go in; the fog is rising."

Dickinson, Emily on death    Share

"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."

Diderot, Denis on death    Share

"When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin."

Donleavy, J. P. on death    Share

"Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me."

Donne, John on death
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"I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming."

Donne, John on death    Share

"As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no."

Donne, John on death    Share

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language."

Donne, John on death
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"All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."

Dryden, John on death    Share

"He was exhaled; his great Creator drew His spirit, as the sun the morning dew."

Dryden, John on death    Share

"Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end."

Dryden, John on death    Share

"To die is landing on some distant shore."

Dryden, John on death    Share

"A dead atheist is someone who is all dressed up with no place to go."

Duffecy, James on death
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"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."

Durrell, Lawrence on death    Share

"The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets."

Dyer, Wayne on death    Share

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."

Einstein, Albert on death
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"When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity."

Eliot, George on death
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"Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."

Eliot, George on death
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"Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet"

Eliot, George on death    Share

"And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."

Eliot, T. S. on death
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"Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright."

Ellis, Alice Thomas on death
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"Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything."

Epictetus on death
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"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls."

Epicurus on death
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"The art of living well and the art of dying well are one."

Epicurus on death
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"Remember man as you walk by, as you are now so once was I, as I am now, so you will be, so prepare for death and follow me."

Epitaph on death    Share

"But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay."

Euripides on death    Share

"We all have to die some day, if we live long enough."

Farber, Dave on death    Share

"It hath often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible."

Fielding, Henry on death    Share

"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."

Fielding, Henry on death    Share

"Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him."

Forster, Edward M. on death    Share

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