Death Quotes - Page 4

• Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Butterfly, Grieving, Laughing

  "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.

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• Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Halloween, War, Ambition

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Fall, Autumn, Simple

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

  Socrates

  Wise, Thinking, Blessing

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• Death ends a life, not a relationship.

  Jack Lemmon

  Life, True Love, Sorry

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• To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

  Thomas Campbell

  Sympathy, Memories, Condolences

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.169

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• Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Wisdom

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• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Life, Wisdom, Song

  "A Sourcebook for Earth's Community of Religions". Book by Joel Diederik Beversluis, 1993.

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• It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

  Samuel Johnson

  Time, Men, Enjoy Life

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 26 Oct. 1769)

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Fear, Children, Halloween

  Essays "Of Death" (1625)

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• Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

  Mitch Albom

  Love, Gone, Alive

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2015

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  It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

  George S. Patton

  Sympathy, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Speech at the Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, on June 07, 1945. "Patton, ordeal and triumph". Book by Ladislas Farago, 1963.

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• When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

  Khalil Gibran

  Grieving, Bereavement, Earth

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

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• Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  William Wallace

  Funeral, Remembrance, Eulogy

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• Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Wise, Men, Dying

  'Fables' bk. 8 (1678-9) 'La Mort et le Mourant'.

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• Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Land, People, Honor

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• Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.

  James F. Byrnes

  Life, Happiness, Fear

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• Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

  Lord Byron

  Sleep, Men, Dying

  Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.23, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

  Michael Landon

  Motivational, Positive, Live Life

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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• I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you... There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Romantic, Depression

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, February 16, 2006.

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• All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Suicide, Stories, Afternoon

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Secret, Dying

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

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• Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  Jean Cocteau

  Ugly Things, Dying, Birth

  "Postambule". "La Fin du Potomac". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1939.

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• Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Dying, Leaves Of Grass

  1860 Leaves of Grass, 'Proto-Leaf', later renamed 'Starting From Paumanok' (from 1867).

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