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Quotes About Death

Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain, And perish in our own.
~ Francis Thompson
Is't death to fall for Freedom's right? He's dead alone who lacks her light!
~ Thomas Campbell
The saddest three words in the English language: "Rest in peace."
~ Pelican, 1939
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
~ Scottish Proverb
fragility of life, finality of death
~ Terri Guillemets
The speedway ends at the cemetery.
~ Author Unknown
Let love's apologies wait not 'til death's doorway.
~ Terri Guillemets
The opposite of education is not ignorance but indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
~ Elie Wiesel, 1986
We born alone, we all die alone.
~ Dalin Shu
Could beauty be caught and hurt they had done her to death with their sneers in ages and ages past, could beauty be sacrificed for a thrust of a sword, for a piece of thin money tossed up to fall half alloy— then beauty were dead long, long before we saw her face.
~ H.D.
Considering his tuberculosis it isn't hard to understand why Nakamura Sensei was motivated to search for firsthand knowledge, but we may not feel the same burning motivation. We, after all, aren't about to die. Unfortunately, this way of thinking is delusional. We are going to die. We
~ H.E. Davey
He is one of those peple who would be enormously improved by death
~ H.H. Munro (Saki)
Truth, Reality, Consciousness. Always is what it is. No beginning, No end, No birth, No death. That which never changes, sets us free.
~ H.W. Mann
The dead are older than the living, he thought. Irrespective of how old they were when they passed over to the other side, they have experienced something which makes them older than any living thing.
~ HÃ¥kan Nesser
I have long examined things, and have found that death is less dangerous than beauty.
~ Héloïse d'Argenteuil
How void of reason are men, said Seneca, to make distant evils present by reflections, and to take pains before death to lose all the joys of life.
~ Héloïse d'Argenteuil
consciousness of disappearance and nothingness, a conspiracy to death
~ Haimer abdou
Death is but a betrayal of eternity.
~ Haimer abdou
Death, nihilism trap for the absurd present.
~ Haimer abdou
The great challenge for the human being is to convert the defeat of death into a real victory.
~ Haimer abdou
In developed countries, unemployment due to trade adjustment may not be a matter of life and death, but in developing countries it often is. This is why we need to be more cautious with trade liberalization in poorer economies.
~ Ha-Joon Chang
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness...against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.
~ Hakim Bey
They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death, but the other – the one marked Matelotage – deals instant love, like the very darts of Eros. And who, I ask ye, who can stand up to love?
~ Hal Duncan
War kills everybody, including the ones who live.
~ Hallgrimur Helgason