Death Quotes - Page 19

• Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

  Emily Bronte

  Life, Dying, Relics

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.463, Penguin

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• No one owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.

  William S. Burroughs

  Frying Pans, Frying, Picks

  William S. Burroughs, Claude Pélieu (1971). “Jack Kerouac”

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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

  Children, Science, Dying

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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• He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as a god gave to Endymion, — sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

  Jean Paul

  Inspirational, Sleep, Giving

  "Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces: Or, The Married Life, Death, and Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor, Firmian Stanislaus Sibenkäs".

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Peace

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Humorous, Flames, Profound

  "Wrestling Archangels". Book by Bede Clarke, 2001.

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• If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)

  Jeaniene Frost

  Years, Long, Romance

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• If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Sea, Rivers

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

  Douglas Horton

  Dying, Birth, Forgotten

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• Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Soul, Poison

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.165, Modern Library

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• Once you're dead, you're made for life.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Inspiration, Made, Someone Dying

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• Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?

  Louis XIV

  Kings, Thinking, Sorrow

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• When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

  Samuel Butler

  Legacy, Decent, Things To Do

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• I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

  George Carlin

  Suicide, Humorous, Stupid People

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

  T. S. Eliot

  Communication, Fire, Language

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 1 (1942)

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• Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dying, Obligation

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 7, 1595.

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• Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Im Sorry, Dying, I Am Sorry

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”

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• We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Laughing, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

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• Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Relationship, Special You, One Day

  "Survivor". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, February 17, 1999.

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• Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Men, Dying

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 9

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• 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

  Wisdom, People, Might

  "A Grief Observed". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1961.

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• There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
  And, with his sickle keen,
  He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
  And the flowers that grow between.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Flower, Names, Dying

  "The Reaper and the Flowers" st. 1 (1839)

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• I hate funerals and would not attend my own if it could be avoided

  Robert Tappan Morris

  Funny, Hate, Funeral

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• There's a remedy for everything except death.

  Peter O'Toole

  Dying, Remedy

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• Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

  James Russell Lowell

  Angel, Dying, Life Is

  James Russell Lowell (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.202

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