Life Death Quotes - Page 3

• Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

  William Wallace

  Death, Funeral, Remembrance

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• Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Graduation, Death

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

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• Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

  Mary Elizabeth Frye

  Death, Lost Love, Losing A Loved One

  "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep" l. 15 (1932).

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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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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

  David Sarnoff

  Death, Fear, Funeral

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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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• 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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• There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Life, Thank You, Spiritual

  "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: Messenger of Love" by Lennie Kronisch in Yoga Journal, Issue 11 (pp. 18-20), November/December 1976.

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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 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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• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Sympathy, Death, Men

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• Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Inspirational, Smile, Uplifting

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• A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Motivational, Happy, Death

  Codice Trivulziano 281

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• Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

  John Dryden

  Death, Fear, Knows

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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• Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Death, Oil, Lamps

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “Notes: Theological, Political and Miscellaneous”, p.357

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• We die, because we live.

  Herman Melville

  Life, Death, Dies

  Herman Melville (1931). “Romances of Herman Melville: Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Mopby-Dick, White-jacket, Israel Potter, Redburn”

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• He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Death, Men, Connections

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• When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

  Ajahn Chah

  Confusing, Doe

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• Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

  Anais Nin

  Death, Sister In Law, Dying

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• In the midst of death life persists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Death, Midst, Darkness To Light

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Roots, Faithful

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• You have dreamed me into your dream to awaken you from the dreams of life, death and separativity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Your Dreams

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• If this is death, it is easier than life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Easier, Ifs

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• Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

  Edwin Arnold

  Sleep, Dying, Death And Dying

  Sir Edwin Arnold (1893). “The Light of the World, Or, The Great Consummation”

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