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List of death quotes
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A friend who dies
A rumorA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley
Are they dead?Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot
Birth and deathI had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot
BullfightingBullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway
City without wallsIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
Epicurus
Darkness and DecayAnd Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
Edgar Allan Poe
Death does not concern usDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus
Death hangs over youDo not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius
Death is dullDeath is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Deep in Earth
Dying
Dying of hunger
Even in the grave
Fear of deathMen fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
Fear of deathFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest Hemingway
Happy deathAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
How I loathe them.
I am not afraidI'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I hate leaving itThe world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
Ernest Hemingway
It is Life's change agentNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs
It is very dull!Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Kids and adultsYou're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney
Leaving a message in a bottleYou die, but most of what you have accumulated will not be lost; you are leaving a message in a bottle.
Umberto Eco
Life and deathThe boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague.
Edgar Allan Poe
Lost experienceThe thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
Umberto Eco
My deathSince the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
Jean Cocteau
No true-story tellerMadame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway
Not deathIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
Not victimsWe are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
Deepak Chopra
Only onceWe die only once, and for such a long time.
Moliere
Rage to live
ReleaseDeath is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius
RememberIt seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck
The birthday of eternityThe day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Seneca
The deadThe communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
T. S. Eliot
The death of a beautiful womanThe death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Edgar Allan Poe
The funeralI didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain
The human consciousnessThe human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
D. H. Lawrence
The most important toolRemembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs
The writer's deathAfter the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.
Jean Cocteau
There is no deathDeath is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
Eckhart Tolle
They are deadConsistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
Tomb
What is death?Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller
Wishing for deathIt's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Alexandre Dumas
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