Death And Dying Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Death, Time, Men

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

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• Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  William Wallace

  Death, Funeral, Remembrance

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• When you awaken in the morning's hush
  I am the swift uplifting rush
  Of quiet birds in circled flight.
  I am the soft stars that shine at night.
  Do not stand at my grave and cry;
  I am not there, I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

  Mary Elizabeth Frye, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep”

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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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• No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

  Euripides

  Death, Dying, Tomorrow

  "Alcestis". Play by Euripides, 438 BCE.

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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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• I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

  Henry Scott Holland

  Remembrance, Memorial, Death Of A Loved One

  Henry Scott Holland, “Death Is Nothing At All”

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• It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Men, Memorial

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

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• A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

  Stanislav Grof

  Numbers, Vision, Dying

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• You can lose people without them dying, and I have, from moving, from traveling. The emotion is real, it just doesn't actually have to do with death. I'm singing about what I know, and it's a song about longing for somebody who's disappeared in your life.

  Jon Crosby

  Song, Real, Moving

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• Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

  Frank Dobson

  People, Smoking, Dying

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• When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Spiritual, Encouragement

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• As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Goal, Salzburg, Existence

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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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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• I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Death, Journey, Thinking

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• Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

  Rumi

  Death, Afterlife, Religion

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• We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Running, Zero

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• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Death, Education, Pain

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1913). “Our Eternity”

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• Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Funny, Death

  "What Happens When the Average Lifespan Hits 100?" by Megan Erickson, bigthink.com.

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• I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Opportunity, Doors, Keys

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

  Epicurus

  Death, Life And Death, Death Anniversary

  "Wisdom's folly No.18" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2005.

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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

  Death, Land, People

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• On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Wisdom, Zero

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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