Death Quotes - Page 5

• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Grieving, Funeral

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Maurice MACKAY (1855). “Select Orations of Marcus T. Cicero: together with the Treatises on Old Age and Friendship. Literally translated by the Rev. Dr. M'Kay ... Second edition”, p.138

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• Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Life, Running

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• In my end is my beginning

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Grief, Dying, Ends

  Motto.

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• Death is the last limit of all things.

  Horace

  Lasts, Limits, All Things

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• There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Eulogy, Dying

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.260, OUP Oxford

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• We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.

  Jean Baptiste Massillon

  Steps, Sickness, Life Is

  Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1839). “Sermons”, p.129

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• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  John Milton

  Keys, Eternity Of Life, Memorial

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• Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

  Leo Buscaglia

  Happiness, Lost Love, Journey

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• Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Positivity, Challenges

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• Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Oil, Lamps, Supplies

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous”, p.357

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• Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Depressing, Life Is Good

  Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”

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• I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Atheist

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• Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

  Walter Scott

  Sympathy, Grief, Condolences

  Sir Walter Scott (1833). “The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott: With a Biography, and His Last Additions and Illustrations”

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

  Ashley Montagu

  Motivational, Kids, Ideas

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• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  Ian Fleming

  Looks, Faces, Born

  Ian Fleming (2012). “You Only Live Twice”, Random House

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• Death is a mighty, universal truth.

  Charles Dickens

  Universal Truth, Universal

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• Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah". Book by Richard Bach, 1977.

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• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

  Samuel Butler

  May, Immortality, Knows

  Samuel Butler (1926). “The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: The notebooks of Samuel Butler”

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• The whole life of a philosopher is the meditation of his death.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Meditation, Philosopher, Whole Life

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• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Men, Littles

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4373, Delphi Classics

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  When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hilarious, Humorous

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• Death is a release from and an end of all pains.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, Release, Ends

  "Of Consolation to Marcia". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1635.

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• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Witty, Christian Inspirational

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 28 Nov. 1954

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