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Quotes about Death


It was from an old friend who . thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, Life and death issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or death. Go easier.

Thomas Arnold

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

Betty Bender

Good men must die, but death can not kill their names.

Bertrand Proverb

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.

Charles Hendrickson Brower

Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.

R. Geis

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

Hazrat Ali

Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death. (68:20).

Joyce Psalm

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.

Hermann Hesse

I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Death thought about it, Cats, he said eventually, Cats are Nice.

Terry Pratchett

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Bible

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Eugene Benge

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Bob Dylan

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Jean Anouilh

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.

Elizabeth Barret Browning

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.

Elizabeth Barret Herodotus

My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.

T.s. Eliot

Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.

Khalil Gibran

In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death.

Albert Camus

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.

Ayn Anaxandrides

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Lord Alfred Buddha

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