Dying Love Quotes

Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Love, Death, Dream

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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Richard Bach

Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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

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I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Death, Rest In Peace, Children

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Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Dion Boucicault

Life, Inspiring, Death

'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

Mother Teresa

Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

Motivational, Death, Kids

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Relationship, Happiness, Sympathy

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Death, Humorous, Profound

The Twilight of the Idols

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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

Death, Flower, I Hate You

"Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide to Green Building Outdoors". Book by William Thompson and Kim Sorvig, p. 30, 2007.

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Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz

Inspirational, Death, Sunday

Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)

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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Inspirational, Death, Running

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sympathy, Missing You, Death

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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Inspirational, Death, Faith

Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

Andrew Sachs

Life, Death, Adventure

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He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

Giovanni Falcone

Death, Fear, Dying

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Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

William Wallace

Death, Funeral, Remembrance

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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.

John Muir

Beautiful, Death, Children

John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

J. D. Salinger

Death, Hope, Flower

J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

Marcel Proust

Death, Grieving, Filled In

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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Death, Children, Fear

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

Miguel de Unamuno

Death, Men, Darkness

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Do not seek death. Death will find you.

Dag Hammarskjold

Death, Dying, Fulfillment In Life

"Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.

William Shakespeare

Death, Measure For Measure, Obstruction

'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 3, sc. 1, l. 114

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Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

John Muir

Life, Beautiful, Death

John Muir (2015). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.43, e-artnow

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Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Tennessee Williams

Death, Time, Dying

Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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