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Quotes about Death


Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

David Searls

In death a hero, as in life a friend!.

Alexander Pope

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Doug Horton

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

Henry Fielding

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Jack Lemmon

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

Charles Sanders Peirce

Fear not death, for it is your destiny.

Ben Sira

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed.

Joseph Bayly

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

Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.

Ketaki Bhave

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo Davinci

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Wings of angels, tears of saints won't bring you back to me (about her son's suicide) (He will come back to her.. the soul is deathless).

Judy Collins

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!.

James Montgomery

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Vladimir Nobokov

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Vladimir Lucan

Death, the last sleep? No the final awakening.

Walter Scott

Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...

Walter Longfellow

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.

Steven Wright

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

Miguel De Cervantes

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Hazrat Ali

Death is near and our mutual company is short.

Hazrat Ali

There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death.

Henry W. Longfellow

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by living, by losing.

Anais Nin

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

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