Death Quotes And Sayings

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“Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.”
– Quintus Ennius

“Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.”
– Rebecca West

“Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.”
– Robert Bolt

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — myth is more potent than history — dreams are more powerful than facts — hope always triumphs over experience — laughter is the cure for grief — love is stronger than death.”
– Robert Fulghum

“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

“Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you’re free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.”
– Saul Alinsky

“If you don’t have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.”
– Scott Caan

“Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder”
– Stephenie Meyer

“No 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.”
– Steve Jobs

“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.”
– Stewart Alsop

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
– Susan Ertz

“Dying is an art.”
– Sylvia Plath

“I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.”
– T. S. Eliot

“Before you complain about life think of someone who died too early on this earth.”
– Tasnim Akhter Samira

“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

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
– Terry Pratchett

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
– Terry Pratchett

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
– Thomas Campbell

“A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.”
– Thomas Mann

“Birth, life, and death — each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.”
– Toni Morrison

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
– Victor Hugo

“The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.”
– W. H. Auden

“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.”
– W. Somerset Maugham

“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.”
– Willa Cather

“Death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
– William Penn

“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
– Woody Allen

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