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Quotes About Death

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.
~ George Orwell
A woman in Great Britain has died after being hit in the back of the head by a golf ball, on the first hole. Her husband was so distraught, he only played the front nine.
~ Jay Leno
The great thing about the dead, they make space.
~ John Updike
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
~ Clarence Darrow
The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.
~ Julio Cortazar
If there were no valleys of sadness and death, we could never really appreciate the sunshine of happiness on the mountain top.
~ Roy Rogers
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.
~ Albert Camus
The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die.
~ Pierre de Beaumarchais
Love is the only effective counter to death.
~ Maureen Duffy
If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!
~ William C. Brown
Above all, the state of grace is absolutely necessary at the moment of death; without it, salvation and supernatural happiness the beatific vision of God - are impossible.
~ Pope Pius XII
O happiness! our being's end and aim! Good, pleasure, ease, content! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts the eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die.
~ Alexander Pope
It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.
~ Francis Quarles
Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.
~ Amy Poehler
The punishment of murder by death is contrary to reason, and to the order and happiness of society, and contrary to divine revelation.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one.-Kenshin to Eiji
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies.
~ Steve Maraboli
count no man happy until he be dead.
~ Solon
SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.
~ John Zea
Don't cry after my death . with smiling face send me to heaven.
~ yakoobkhan
I am dying with the help of too many physicians.
~ Alexander the Great