Death Quotes
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And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
Walt Whitman
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It is true, as the champions of the extremists say, that there can be no life without change, and that to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. It is no less true, however, that change may mean death and not life, and retrogression instead of development.
Edmund Morris
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Birth, life, death is a cycle. And they're all beautiful, you celebrate all of them. Animals do grieve, but they move on. That's the lesson behind animals.
Cesar Millan
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Mental inertia is death.
Timothy Thomas Fortune
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If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies in his lifetime.
Ernest Legouve
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It's scary to watch someone you love go into the center of himself and confront his fears, fear of failure, fear of death, fear of going insane. You have to fail a little, die a little, go insane a little, to come out the other side.
Eleanor Coppola
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Life is uncertain; death is certain.
Gautama Buddha
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
Seneca the Younger
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Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.
Ardel Wray
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
Seneca the Younger
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We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.
Eleanor Farjeon
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Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.
Eugene Ionesco
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Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.
Edwin Newman
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Whoever finds me finds life,
And obtains favor from the Lord;
But those who miss me injure themselves;
All who hate me love death.
Bart Ehrman
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Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Margaret Mitchell
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Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.
Susan Cheever
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It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.
William Wake
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In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.
Ahmed Kathrada
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At the conscious approach of death, faith in the Biblical Religion, with its God and Christ and written Revelation, never weakens, but almost or quite always strengthens, and very often advances to a splendid assurance; while unbelief under the same circumstances never strengthens, but almost or quite always weakens and falters, and very often fails utterly.
Enoch Fitch Burr
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All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.
Edward Thomson
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For death and life, in ceaseless strife,
Beat wild on this world's shore,
And all our calm is in that balm—
Not lost but gone before.
Caroline Norton
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
Dante Alighieri
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When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.
George Sewell
