Reaper Quotes

• You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.

  Robert Alton Harris

  Inspirational, Dance, Kings

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• There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
  And, with his sickle keen,
  He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
  And the flowers that grow between.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Death, Flower, Names

  "The Reaper and the Flowers" st. 1 (1839)

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• Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

  Terry Pratchett

  I Hate You, Science, Dark

  "Criminal Minds: Conflicted". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• We don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well.

  Randy Pausch

  Beats, Live Well, Wells

  "'Last Lecture' Professor Randy Pausch Dies at 47", www.foxnews.com. July 28, 2008.

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• Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

  Federico Fellini

  Pain, Law, Imagination

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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• The reaper does not listen to the harvest.

  Terry Pratchett

  Doe, Harvest

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• No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Death, Memories, Remembrance

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Reaper Man: (Discworld Novel 11)”, p.317, Random House

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• We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

  Randy Pausch

  Life, Beats, Born

  YouTube Channel "R2Agent"/"Randy Pausch addressing the CMU 2008 graduating class", www.youtube.com. May 19, 2008.

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• I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it.

  Rachel Vincent

  Cute, Song, People

  FaceBook post by Rachel Vincent from Aug 03, 2011

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• Just FYI, in your case, I think it’s okay to fear the reaper.

  Rachel Vincent

  Thinking, Cases, Okay

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.55, Harlequin

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• You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Passion

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• What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Care, Azrael

  "Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. Lord, will you grant me just a little time? For the proper balance of things. To return what was given. For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Expression, Bird

  "Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• I'm so happy dancing while the grim reaper
  cuts, cuts, cuts, but he can't get me.
  I'm as clever as can be, and I'm very quick but don't forget;
  we've only got so many tricks.
  no one lives forever.

  Danny Elfman

  Death, Clever, Cutting

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• But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his snow flakes will whiten my locks, and his mists will dim my eyes. Then my friends will lie in their lonely grave, and I alone will remain like a solitary stalk forgotten by the reaper.

  Heinrich Heine

  Death, Lonely, Lying

  Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.173

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• Reaper of enemies; strong of grip; One kind with his fathers.

  Taliesin

  Strong, Father, Enemy

  Taliesin, “Elegy For Owain”

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• What can the harvest hope for...

  Terry Pratchett

  Azrael, Harvest, Discworld

  Terry Pratchett (2017). “Terry Pratchett's Discworld Coloring Book”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.

  Terry Pratchett

  Strange, Ignored, Wonderful

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• I'ma do my thing until the day the reaper come for me. You can keep on grillin', I'ma smile back.

  Mac Miller

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• You're my Red Reaper, and I've missed you terribly.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Red, Missed You, I've Missed You

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• In the midst of a foggy field, the answers are hidden But the impossible journey deems them forbidden. The Reaper of Death, the Angel of Life. They walk together in day and night.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Angel, Night, Journey

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• The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.

  Patrick Carman

  Grim Reaper, Disappear, Grim

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• Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Science, Progress

  Stephen Jay Gould (1990). “Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History”, p.35, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Your mortal attachments are like a puppet’s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!

  Rachel Vincent

  Attachment, Hands, Puppets

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “With All My Soul”, p.196, Harlequin

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• I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Scythes, Bores, Taunting

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.9, Hachette UK

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