Death Quotes - Page 2

• Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

  Rumi

  Sympathy, True Love, Goodbye

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• They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Sweet, Dog

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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• Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Wisdom, Children

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• How short is human life! the very breath
  Which frames my words accelerates my death.

  Hannah More

  Human Life, Humans, Breaths

  Hannah More (1827). “Sacred Drams: The Search After Happiness, A. Other Poems”, p.122

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• There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

  Washington Irving

  Love, Marriage, Sympathy

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fate, Men, Sight

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Rest In Peace, Light

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• The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

  Mark Twain

  Positive, Spiritual, Fear

  "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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  Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

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

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• Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Minutes, Feels

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• To conquer death you only have to die.

  Alane Ferguson

  Conquer, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dies

  Alane Ferguson (2008). “Angel of Death: A Forensic Mystery”, p.61, Penguin

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• Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

  Frederic Chopin

  Memories, Health, Play

  "The opera reader". Book by Louis Leopold Biancolli (p. 271), 1953.

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• The right time to die is never exactly now.

  Mason Cooley

  Right Time, Dies

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• Fight death all your days, and die knowing you know nothing.

  Ardel Wray

  Ignorance, Fighting, Medicine

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• Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Home, Men, Wish

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• What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Sympathy, Condolences

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

  William Shakespeare

  Leaving, Tragedy, Important Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

  Patrick Swayze

  Positive, Life Lesson, Live Life

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• The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

  Arlo Guthrie

  Birth

  Song: Wake Up Dead, Album: Mystic Journey, 1996

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• Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Mirrors, Dying, Meaning Of Life

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• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  Og Mandino

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Best You Ever: 365 Ways to be Richer, Happier, Thinner, Smarter, Younger, Sexier, and More Relaxed - Each and Every Day". Book by Rebecca Swanner (p. 324), October 18, 2010.

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• What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Inspirational, Character, Forever

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Dying, Mouths

  Mark Twain (2016). “Pudd'nhead Wilson and Those Extraordinary Twins”, p.94, Broadview Press

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• Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

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