Death And Dying Quotes - Page 7

• Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 6, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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• Dying is a wild night and a new road.

  Emily Dickinson

  Death, Spiritual, Night

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.463, Harvard University Press

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Death, Running

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• 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

  Sympathy, Death, Wisdom

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• But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Talking, People, Dying

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• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Sympathy, Death, Men

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• The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  Ashley Montagu

  Motivational, Death, Kids

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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

  Death, Fear, Funeral

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Death, Veterans Day

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Beautiful, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Wolfe, Francis E. Skipp (1989). “The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

  Kurt Cobain

  Hope, Soul, Dying

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Practice, Differences

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• Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Two, Dying

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• Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

  David Mazzucchelli

  Rest In Peace, Life Is, Stressful

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• No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Men, Water, Lasts

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• Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

  John Steinbeck

  Brother, Sleep

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.263, Hamilton Books

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• A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.

  Lin Yutang

  Funeral, Chinese, Mind

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dying, Dies

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.147, Random House

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• There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Blessed, Men, Dying

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• When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.

  Charles Peguy

  Men, Dying, Doe

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• I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

  Patti Davis

  Thinking, Dying, Teach

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• If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.

  Walt Whitman

  Death, Dying, Looks

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.83, NYU Press

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• I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.

  Banksy

  Life, Death, Time

  The Sun, 2010.

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