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Quotes About Death

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.
~ William Wallace
I want to be a pretty corpse.
~ Eva Braun
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
~ William Osler
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
~ Petrarch
Everyone recognizes that Stephen was Spirit-filled when he was performing wonders. Yet, he was just as Spirit-filled when he was being stoned to death.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?
~ Richard Francis Burton
Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.
~ Ephrem the Syrian
I'm more afraid of marriage than death.
~ Shakira
There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!
~ Walter Matthau
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
~ Harold Pinter
Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.
~ William Saroyan
Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I hunted all through the four Gospels trying to find one of Christ's funeral sermons, but I couldn't find any. I found He broke up every funeral He ever attended! Death couldn't exist where He was.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]
~ Catullus
I dislike death, however, there are some things I dislike more than death. Therefore, there are times when I will not avoid danger.
~ Mencius
Funny how gentle people get with you once you're dead.
~ William Holden
The final reward of the dead - to die no more
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
~ Brennan Manning
Death rock me asleep.
~ William Shakespeare
I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.
~ Gary Numan
Death is death no matter how it is inflicted
~ Fritz Haber
The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.
~ Robert Barron
They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related... Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated.
~ Jayceon Terrell Taylor
Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.
~ Richard Matheson