Dying Death Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Beautiful, Death

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

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• Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Sympathy, Death

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1081, Delphi Classics

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• Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

  James O'Barr

  Sympathy, Death, Real

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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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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• If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Death, Men, Civilization

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press

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• Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

  Erik Erikson

  Life, Death, Children

  Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.269, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

  James O'Barr

  Sympathy, Death, Lost Love

  "The Crow". www.imdb.com. May 10, 1994.

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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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• A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.

  Brian Williams

  Life, Death, Dream

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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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• Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

  Bryan Procter

  Death, Tyrants, Imagination

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• Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

  Joanna Lumley

  Remembrance, Death Of A Loved One, Dying

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

  Isaac Asimov

  Sympathy, Death, Depressing

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

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

  Andrew Sachs

  Life, Death, Adventure

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Children

  Essays "Of Death" (1625)

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• I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Fear, Believe

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.636

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• A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Birthday, Death

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