| 83 Death Quotes
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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?”
Chuck Palahniuk Quotes |
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“You can shed tears that she is gone, or you can smile because she has lived.You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,or you can be full of the love you shared.You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.You can remember her only that she is gone,or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.You can cry and close your mind, be empty and turn your back.Or you can do what she'd want:smile, open your eyes, love and go on.”
David Harkins Quotes |
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“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Every man dies - Not every man really lives.”
William Ross Wallace Quotes |
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“One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb Quotes |
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“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend - provided, of course, that he really is dead.”
Voltaire Quotes |
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“Mors sceptra ligonibus aequat.
(Death levels sceptre and the law.)”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: inscribed over a 14th century mural painting once at Battle Church, Sussex
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“Death's pale flag advanced in his cheeks.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Seven Champions (pt. III, ch. XI)
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“Go thou, deceased, to this earth which is a mother, and spacious
and kind. May her touch be soft like that of wool, or a young
woman, and may she protect thee from the depths of destruction.
Rise above him, O Earth, do not press painfully on him, give him
good things, give him consolation, as a mother covers her child
with her cloth, cover thou him.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Vedic Funeral Rite, quoted in the "New York Times" on the death of Buffalo Bill
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“Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Vedic Funeral Rite, quoted in the "New York Times" on the death of Buffalo Bill
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“Call no man happy till he is dead.”
Aeschylus Quotes Source: Agamemnon (938), earliest reference
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“But when the sun in all his state,
Illumed the eastern skies,
She passed through glory's morning gate,
And walked in Paradise.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes Source: A Death Bed
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“Somewhere, in desolate, wind-swept space,
In twilight land, in no man's land,
Two hurrying shapes met face to face
And bade each other stand.
"And who are you?" cried one, a-gape,
Shuddering in the glimmering light.
"I know not," said the second shape,
"I only died last night."”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes Source: Identity
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“The white sail of his soul has rounded
The promontory--death.”
William Alexander, Earl of Stirling Quotes Source: The Icebound Ship
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“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before,
Advanced a stage or two upon that road
Which you must travel in the steps they trod.”
Aristophanes Quotes Source: Fragment (II), translation by Cumberland
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“He who died at Azan sends
This to comfort all this friends:
Faithful friends! It lies I know
Pale and white and cold as snow;
And ye say, "Abdallah's dead!"
Weeping at the feet and head.
I can see your falling tears,
I can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet I smile and whisper this:
I am not the thing you kiss.
Cease your tears and let it lie;
It was mine--it is not I.”
Edwin Arnold Quotes Source: He Who Died at Azan
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“Her cabin'd ample spirit,
It fluttered and fail'd for breath;
Tonight it doth inherit
The vasty hall of death.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Requiescat
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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Requiescat
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“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls
a butterfly.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Requiescat
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“What then remains, but that we still should cry
Not to be born, or being born to die.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Requiescat
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“It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant,
perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Death
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“Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that
natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the
other.”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Essays--Of Death
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“Death is the universal salt of states;
Blood is the base of all things--law and war.”
Philip James Bailey Quotes Source: Festus (sc. A Country Town)
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