Death Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Woody Allen,
Mark Twain
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| Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. |
| - Aeschylus |
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| There's nothing certain in a man's life except this: That he must lose it. |
| - Aeschylus |
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| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. |
| - Woody Allen |
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| There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? |
| - Woody Allen |
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| Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills. |
| - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
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| Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. |
| - Isaac Asimov |
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| Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon. |
| - David Assael |
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| Death is life's way of telling you you're fired. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Men 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 |
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| If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun. |
| - Roseanne Barr |
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| Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. |
| - Bertolt Brecht |
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| The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them. |
| - Lois McMaster Bujold |
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| To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. |
| - Samuel Butler |
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| Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. |
| - Lord Byron |
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| Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. |
| - George Carlin |
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| For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. |
| - Johnny Carson |
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| I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. |
| - Willa Cather |
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| Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. |
| - Norman Cousins |
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| There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world. |
| - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
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| Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. |
| - Henry Van Dyke |
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| He not busy being born is busy dying. |
| - Bob Dylan |
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| Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race. |
| - Hugh Elliott |
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| Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. |
| - Epicurus |
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| No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. |
| - Euripides |
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| The goal of all life is death. |
| - Sigmund Freud |
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| The graveyards are full of indispensable men. |
| - Charles de Gaulle |
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| I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. |
| - Jean Giraudoux |
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| If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. |
| - Samuel Goldwyn |
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| Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. |
| - George Gordon |
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| And they die an equal death - the idler and the man of mighty deeds. |
| - Homer |
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| Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. |
| - Homer |
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| Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. |
| - Horace |
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| Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it. |
| - C.G. Jung |
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| Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty five years and you pay it back and then one day you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then one day you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe. |
| - Dennis Leary |
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| All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. |
| - Maurice Maeterlinck |
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| Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit." |
| - Bill Maher |
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| A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. |
| - Thomas Mann |
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| Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. |
| - William Somerset Maugham |
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| The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever.... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it. |
| - Henry Louis Mencken |
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| I want a priest, a rabbi, and a Protestant clergyman. I want to hedge my bets. |
| - Wilson Mizner |
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| Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. |
| - Wilson Mizner |
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| The idea is to die young as late as possible. |
| - Ashley Montagu |
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| Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. |
| - John Muir |
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| To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. |
| - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche |
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| People living deeply have no fear of death. |
| - Anaïs Nin |
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| On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. |
| - Chuck Palahniuk |
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| For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. |
| - William Penn |
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| Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? |
| - Plato |
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| No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. |
| - Plato |
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| We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. |
| - Marcel Proust |
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| It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside. |
| - Pamela Ribon |
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| Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. |
| - J.D. Salinger |
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| There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. |
| - George Santayana |
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| We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. |
| - David Sarnoff |
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| They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. |
| - Arthur Schopenhauer |
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| The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. |
| - Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
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| Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. |
| - Socrates |
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| Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it. |
| - Sophocles |
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| We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. |
| - Madame de Staël |
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| As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. |
| - Publilius Syrus |
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| The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. |
| - Publilius Syrus |
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| Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident - It is as common as life. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| The report of my death was an exaggeration. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. |
| - Leonardo da Vinci |
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| While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. |
| - Leonardo da Vinci |
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| I'd rather get my brains blown out in the wild than wait in terror at the slaughterhouse. |
| - Craig Volk |
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| The killing was the best part. It was the dying I couldn't take. |
| - Craig Volk |
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| Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. |
| - Alice Walker |
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| I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. |
| - Oscar Wilde |
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| Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. |
| - Tennessee Williams |
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| I intend to live forever. So far, so good. |
| - Steven Wright |
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| Our birth is nothing but our death begun. |
| - Edward Young |
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