Death Quotes
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Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.
Jim Butcher
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Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight.
William Shakespeare
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Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron
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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
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I will never forget how sad it was watching this lil guy walk down the aisle at his dads funeral. He’s not so little any more.
Ken Casey
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According to the producers of gripping podcast 'Death, Sex & Money', these are the three things we think about a lot but need to talk about more.
David Hepworth
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I'm working myself to death.
Alan Ladd
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Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.
William Shakespeare
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Nothing is unimportant to a man plunged in despair. He is as credulous as a criminal sentenced to death who listens to a lunatic raving to him about how he can escape through the keyhole.
Honore de Balzac
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Not knowing life, how can we know death? Why talk of spirits when you do not understand men?
Confucius
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
Jasper Fforde
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We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.
Stokely Carmichael
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A man must always have the final choice in life and in death. Anything else can be taken from him, but never that.
Conn Iggulden
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To ignore death and to be afraid of it is dumb because everyone is going to face it at some point. If you look at death and the reality of it, you realise that we're all going to die, so let's use this time on Earth to be positive and do good things.
Ray Toro My Chemical Romance
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Since PTSD is being exposed to death and the death of someone close, I felt really close to [the soldiers].
Alice Winocour
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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
H. G. Wells
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For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.
Debi Mazar
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The eternal link between Lincoln's life and Passover - the fact that Lincoln's death, marked in the Hebrew calendar, coincides with Passover every year - is certainly fitting, and perhaps even part of the providence that Lincoln began to see in his own life and the life of his nation.
Meir Soloveichik
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It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.
William Shatner
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There’s nothing more fun than having a bad cold, feeling like death warmed up and trying to get a tax return together.
Wreckless Eric
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This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
Anthony Trollope
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The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.
Sigmund Freud