Quotes about death

"The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell."

Foster, John W. on death   

"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."

Franklin, Benjamin on death
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"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."

Franklin, Benjamin on death
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"Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life."

Frohman, Charles on death   

"To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable."

Fromm, Erich on death
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"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow."

Gabirol, Ibn on death
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"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."

Gide, Andre on death
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"Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born."

Gilmore, Gary Mark on death
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"Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on death   

"A useless life is an early death."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on death
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"Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep."

Gray, Thomas on death   

"We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to."

Greene, Graham on death   

"Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing."

Gurdjieff, George on death   

"A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror."

Gurdjieff, George on death
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"The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living."

Guthrie, Arlo on death
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"Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?"

Hallaj on death   

"I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this."

Hamilton, Hugh on death   

"In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions life puts to us."

Hammarskjold, Dag on death   

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party."

Hammarskjold, Dag on death   

"Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life."

Hammarskjold, Dag on death   

"To leave is to die a little... one leaves behind a little of oneself at any hour, at any place."

Haracourt, Edmond on death
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

Hauer, Rutger on death   

"You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide."

Havner, Vance on death   

"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on death
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"Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies. Death is the greatest assayer of the sterling ore of talent. At his touch the dropsy particles fall off, the irritable, the personal, the gross, and mingle with the dust --the finer and more ethereal part mounts with winged spirit to watch over our latest memory, and protect our bones from insult. We consign the least worthy qualities to oblivion, and cherish the nobler and imperishable nature with double pride and fondness."

Hazlitt, William on death   

"Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain."

Hazlitt, William on death   

"Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now!"

Healey, Thomas F. on death   

"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

Heidegger, Martin on death
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"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

Hendrix, Jimi on death
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"Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair."

Henley, William Ernest on death   

"Only the young die good."

Herford, Oliver on death
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"Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you."

Hermes, Georg on death   

"Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men."

Herodotus on death   

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation."

Hesse, Hermann on death
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"Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow."

Hoffer, Eric on death   

"How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty."

Hoffer, Eric on death   

"It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living."

Hoffer, Eric on death   

"Our dead brothers still live for us and bid us think of life, not death -- of life to which in their youth they lent the passion and glory of Spring. As I listen, the great chorus of life and joy begins again, and amid the awful orchestra of seen and unseen powers and destinies of good and evil, our trumpets, sound once more a note of daring, hope, and will."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on death   

"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on death
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"Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present."

Hook, Sydney on death