Someone Dying Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Death, Funeral, Dying

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

  Joseph Hall

  Death, Dying, Borders

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Practical works”, p.175

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Death, Ugly Things, Dying

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

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• Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Death, Long

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• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

  Jonathan Swift

  Death, Evil, Dying

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous”, p.56

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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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  I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

  Emiliano Zapata

  Life, Positive, Death

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• Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

  Alice Walker

  Death, Inspirational Life, Believe

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.156, Hachette UK

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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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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Death, Veterans Day

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

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• To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Halloween

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Love, Death, Saying Goodbye

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• ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

  John Donne

  Death, Grief, Bereavement

  John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”

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• They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Suicide

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fate, Ides Of March

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

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• The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Death

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

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dying Love, Measure For Measure

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

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• Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.

  Julie Burchill

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  "The New Encyclopedia of Christian Quotations". Book by Mark Water, p. 111, 2000.

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• Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Evil, Memorial, Essentials

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.40, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

  John James Ingalls

  Death, Equality, Men

  John James Ingalls (1907). “Selections from the Writings of John J. Ingalls”

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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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• 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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