There are three kinds of death in this
world. There's heart death, there's brain death,
and there's being off the network.
?Guy Almes
A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy
man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when
it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.
?Steward Alsop
I do not believe that any man fears to
be dead, but only the stroke of death.
?Francis Bacon
When one by one our ties are torn,
and friend from friend is snatched
forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn,
oh! then how sweet it is to die!
?Anna Letitia Barbauld
Living is death; dying is life. We are not
what we appear to be. On this side of the
grave we are exiles, on that citizens;
on this side orphans, on that children.
?Henry Ward Beecher
Loss and possession, Death and
life are one. There falls no shadow
where There shines no sun.
?Hilaire Belloc
Death is as sure for that which is born,
as birth is for that which is dead.
Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.
?Bhagavad Gita
How long after you are gone will
ripples remain as evidence that you
were cast into the pool of life?
?Grant M. Bright
No one's death comes to pass without
making some impression, and those close
to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul
and become richer in their humanness.
?Hermann Broch
Though it be in the power of the weakest
arm to take away life, it is not in the
strongest to deprive us of death.
?Sir Thomas Browne
Men are never really willing to die
except for the sake of freedom: therefore
they do not believe in dying completely.
?Albert Camus
Well, there's a remedy for all things
but death, which will be sure
to lay us flat one time or other.
?Miguel De Cervantes
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom
cannot release, the physician of him
whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter
of him whom time cannot console.
?Charles Caleb Colton
I have wrestled with death. It is the most
unexciting contest you can imagine.
It takes place in an impalpable grayness,
with nothing underfoot, with nothing
around, without spectators, without clamor,
without glory, without the great desire of
victory, without the great fear of defeat.
?Joseph Conrad
While I thought that I was learning how
to live, I have been learning how to die.
?Leonardo Da Vinci
Death be not proud, though some have
called thee Mighty and dreadful,
for thou art not so. For, those, whom
thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not,
poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
?John Donne
A dead atheist is someone who is
all dressed up with no place to go.
?James Duffecy
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his
park where he breeds life to feed him.
Cries of pain are music for his banquet
?George Eliot
Death is the last enemy:
once we've got past that I think
everything will be alright.
?Alice Thomas Ellis
The pride of dying rich raises
the loudest laugh in hell.
?John W. Foster
Why fear death? It is the most
beautiful adventure in life.
?Charles Frohman
Plan for this world as if you expect to live
forever; but plan for the hereafter
as if you expect to die tomorrow.
?Ibn Gabirol
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the
surface. Its their way of falling.
?Andre Gide
Death is the only inescapable,
unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced
to die the day we're born.
?Gary Mark Gilmore
Death is a commingling of eternity with
time; in the death of a good man,
eternity is seen looking through time.
?Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Man has the possibility of existence
after death. But possibility is one thing
and the realization of the possibility
is quite a different thing.
?George Gurdjieff
Oh you who have been removed from God
in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can
you expect to reach him without dying?
?Hallaj
Death is like an arrow that is already in flight,
and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
?Georg Hermes
The call of death is a call of love. Death
can be sweet if we answer it in the
affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great
eternal forms of life and transformation.
?Hermann Hesse
Death is feared as birth is forgotten.
?Doug Horton
Ignore death up to the last moment; then,
when it can't be ignored any longer,
have yourself squirted full of morphia
and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly
sensible, humane and scientific, eh?
?Aldous Huxley
In the democracy of the dead all men at
last are equal. There is neither
rank nor station nor prerogative
in the republic of the grave.
?John J. Ingalls
We are but tenants and shortly the
great landlord will give us
notice that our lease has expired.
?Joseph Jefferson
It matters not how a man dies, but
how he lives. The act of dying is not of
importance, it lasts so short a time.
?Samuel Johnson
It is hard to have patience with people
who say "There is no death" or
"Death doesn't matter." There is death.
And whatever is matters. And
whatever happens has consequences,
and it and they are irrevocable and
irreversible. You might as well say
that birth doesn't matter.
?C. S. Lewis
But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet.
Lessen like sound of friends departing feet;
And death is beautiful as feet of friend.
Coming with welcome at our journey's end.
?James Russell Lowell
Every man must do two things
alone; he must do his own
believing and his own dying.
?Martin Luther
There is no such thing as death. In nature
nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay,
some forms of life arise so shall his life be
taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
?Charles Mackay
We begin to die as soon as we are born,
and the end is linked to the beginning.
?Marcus Manilius
There is no death. the stars go down
to rise upon some other shore.
And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown,
they shine for ever more.
?John Luckey McCreery
At birth man is offered only one choice --
the choice of his death. But if this choice is
governed by distaste for his own existence,
his life will never have been
more than meaningless.
?Jean-Pierre Melville
Death is delightful. Death is dawn,
the waking from a weary night
of fevers unto truth and light.
?Joaquin Miller
Men fear death, as if unquestionably
the greatest evil, and yet no man knows
that it may not be the greatest good.
?William Mitford
We should weep for men at their
birth, not at their death.
?Charles De Montesquieu
I hate funerals and would not attend
my own if it could be avoided,
but it is well for every man to stop once in a
while to think of what sort of a collection of
mourners he is training for his final event.
?Robert T. Morris
One should die proudly when it is
no longer possible to live proudly.
?Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is a dream walking;
death is a going home.
?Chinese Proverb
Every man goes down to his
death bearing in his hands only
that which he has given away.
?Persian Proverb
Death gives us sleep, eternal
youth, and immortality.
?Jean Paul Richter
Death is more universal than life;
everyone dies but not everyone lives.
?A. Sachs
When the body sinks into death, the
essence of man is revealed.
Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into
which relationships are tied.
Only those relationships matter. The body
is an old crock that nobody will miss.
I have never known a man to
think of himself when dying.
Never.
?Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Is death the last step? No,
it is the final awakening.
?Sir Walter Scott
For those who live neither with religious
consolations about death nor with
a sense of death (or of anything else) as
natural, death is the obscene mystery,
the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot
be controlled. It can only be denied.
?Susan Sontag
God's finger touched him and he slept.
?Lord Alfred Tennyson
Death is an endless night so awful to
contemplate that it can make us love life
and value it with such passion that it may
be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
?Paul Theroux
Early to rise and early to bed makes
a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
?James Thurber
Death is not a period, but a
comma in the story of life.
?Amos Traver
Some people are so afraid to die
that they never begin to live.
?Henry Van Dyke
Dying is the most embarrassing thing
that can ever happen to you,
because someone's got to take
care of all your details.
?Andy Warhol
Death is nature's way of saying,
Your table's ready.
?Robin Williams
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the
years to come seemed waste of breath,
a waste of breath the years behind,
in balance with this life, this death.
?William Butler Yeats
In any man who dies there dies with him,
his first snow and kiss and fight.
Not people die but worlds die in them.
?Yevgeny Yevtushenko
No evil is honorable: but death is honorable;
therefore death is not evil.
?Citium Zeno
Death is one of the few things that
can be done as easily lying down.
The difference between sex and death
is that with death you can do it alone and
no one is going to make fun of you.
?Woody Allen
At the end of the game the king and
the pawn go back in the same box.
?Italian Proverb
Life is a great surprise.
I don't see why death should
not be an even greater one.
?Vladimir Nabokov
Dear World, I am leaving because I am
bored. I feel I have lived long enough.
I am leaving you with your worries
in this sweet cesspool.
Good luck.
?George Sanders, his suicide note
There is no cure for birth and death
save to enjoy the interval.
?Santayana
Life does not cease to be funny when
people die any more than it ceases to
be serious when people laugh.
?George Bernard Shaw
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
?Dylan Thomas
To live is to dream and to die is to awaken.
?Anonymous
We sometimes congratulate ourselves
at the moment of waking from
a troubled dream; it may be
so at the moment after death.
?Nathaniel Hawthorne
All changes, even the most longed for,
have their melancholy; for what we leave
behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die
to one life before we can enter another.
?Anatole France
We are bound to our bodies
like an oyster is to its shell.
?Plato
Dying is like getting out of a car.
You leave a shell behind, but you're
the same person as ever.
?President Klein
The mark of your ignorance is the depth
of your belief in injustice and tragedy
. What the caterpillar calls the end of the
world, the master calls a butterfly.
?Richard Bach
If there is a sin against life, it consists
perhaps not so much in despairing of life
as in hoping for another life and in eluding
the implacable grandeur of this life.
?Albert Camus
We do not know what to do with
this short life, yet we yearn for
another that will be eternal.
?Anatole France
I'm the one who has to die when it's time for
me to die, so let me live my life,
the way I want to.
?Jimi Hendrix
The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
?Naguib Mahfouz
Death is the biggest thrill
of all... that is why it was
saved for last.
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