Death Quotes
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Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.
Gerald Durrell
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf
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Death must be an evil and the gods agree; for why else would they live for ever?
Sappho
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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
Saul Bellow
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I couldn't imagine working in a hospital where there's just death, everywhere. But for a lot of women, it was their only option. They couldn't get other jobs.
Eve Hewson
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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
Ezra Pound
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Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
Nick Tosches
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None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.
Sigmund Freud
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
William Butler Yeats
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Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.
Hermann Hesse
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
Catherynne M. Valente
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I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.
Haruki Murakami
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Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
Arthur Schnitzler
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan
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As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
Blaise Pascal
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Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, "Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?" People don't forget that.
Bill Gates
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The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.
Bion of Smyrna
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Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.
Beth Revis
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Death makes a beautiful appeal to charity. When we look upon the dead form, so composed and still, the kindness and the love that are in us all come forth.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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God grants an easy death only to the just.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
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Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!
Cotton Mather