Death Quotes - Page 36

• Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

  Voltaire

  Atheist, Believe, Dying

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• I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Thinking, Maximum Number

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.445, Penguin

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• The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Population, Violence

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• A matador is a guy who didn't have enough people skills to be promoted to serial killer.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Skills, People

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• In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Hard Work, Speech

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• Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Serial Killer, Killers

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.440, Penguin

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• You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Perfect, Guy

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• He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Festivals

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• You already barely exist. Disappearing entirely won't be that much of a change.

  Scott Adams

  Suicide, Disappear

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.281, Penguin

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• To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

  Samuel Butler

  Dying, Forget, Forgotten

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4372, Delphi Classics

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• If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Dying, Knows

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4374, Delphi Classics

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• Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Doors, People, Dying

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• To rest upon a formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Mean, Dying, Slumber

  "Ideals and Doubts", 10 Illinois Law Rev 3, 1915.

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• Our own death is a premium which we must pay for the far greater benefit we have derived from the fact that so many people have not only lived but also died before us.

  Samuel Butler

  People, Dying, Benefits

  Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Blessing, Years

  Thomas Watson (1838). “A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture”, p.268

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• He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Blessing, Joy

  Thomas Watson (1692). “A Body of Practical Divinity: Consisting of Above 176 Sermons on the Lesser Catechism”

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• I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.

  Samuel Butler

  Prayer, Fall, Broken

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited”, p.260, Courier Dover Publications

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• The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

  Edward Young

  Peace, Nature, Honesty

  Edward Young (1823). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality: To which is Added a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job, and the Last Day, a Poem”, p.19

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• There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Funny, Sleep, Three

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• Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

  Henry Miller

  Spiritual, Unknown Worlds, Afterlife

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• God bless... God damn.

  James Thurber

  Age, God Bless, Damn

  1961 Last words.

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• A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

  John Towner Williams

  Dying, Way, Chaps

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• It is natural to die as to be born.

  Francis Bacon

  Dying, Natural, Born

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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• All men think that all men are mortal but themselves.

  Edward Young

  Men, Thinking, Dying

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• Virtue alone has majesty in death.

  Edward Young

  Dying, Majesty, Virtue

  Edward Young (1837). “The Complaint and Consolation; Or, Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality: To which is Added, The Force of Religion”, p.35

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