Death Quotes

• Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Smile, Uplifting

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• If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Words Of Wisdom, Killing

  "Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand". Book by Nathaniel Brandon, 1989.

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• Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

  Julius Caesar

  Moving On, Wisdom, Fear

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  Hector Berlioz

  Life, Music, Education

  "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.

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• Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

  Chester Himes

  Life, Knowledge, Men

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• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Life, Change, Running

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• Death is a continuation of my life without me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Existentialism, Continuation

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I do not wish to die: but I care not if I were dead.
  [Lat., Emori nolo: sed me esse mortuum nihil aestimo.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wish To Die, Care, Dies

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• Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

  Martha Ostenso

  Drawing, Independence, Growing

  Martha Ostenso (1934). “The White Reef”, New York, Dodd

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• Death is the loss of everything all at once.

  Julie Salamon

  Loss

  Julie Salamon (2008). “Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God, and Diversity on Steroids”, p.56, Penguin

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• I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

  Corazon Aquino

  Life, Wise, Meaningful

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• Only the dead have seen the end of war.

  Plato

  Memorial Day, Plato, Military

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• I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Letting Go, Years

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli (1995). “The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection”, p.618, Simon and Schuster

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• There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

  Oliver Sacks

  Life, Fate, Unique

  Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dying, Tomorrow, Terrorism

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Suicide, Dream, Funeral

  Journal, 25 Oct. 1836

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• If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

  Will Rogers

  Cute, Loyalty, Dog

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• We die only once, and for such a long time.

  Moliere

  Time, Long, Dies

  "Le Dépit Amoureux". Play by Moliere, Act V, sc. iii, 1656.

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• Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• No Christian is abandoned at the moment of death. The angels are the ushers, and our passage to heaven is under their escort.

  David Jeremiah

  Inspirational, Christian, Angel

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• Engage in combat fully determined to die and you will be alive; wish to survive in the battle and you will surely meet death.

  Uesugi Kenshin

  Warrior, Japan, Wish

  "Zen Buddhism and Its Influence on Japanese Culture". Book by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, p. 188, 1970.

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• How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Brother, Sleep, Dying

  'The Daemon of the World' part 1, l. 1 (a revision of the opening lines of 'Queen Mab')

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• The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

  Jean Paul

  Twilight, Darkness, Lovely

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• Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Retirement, Next Steps, Pay

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”

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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

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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