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Quotes About Death

Dead people are all on the same level.
~ Unknown
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.
~ Heinrich Heine
The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.
~ James Stockdale
Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .
~ John William Draper
But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.
~ Fiona Apple
Death: the anaesthetic from which none come round.
~ Philip Larkin
Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Hamlet and Victor Frankenstein are each obsessed with death. Hamlet's whole story is a philosophical preparation for death; Victor's is an intellectual refusal to accept it.
~ Kenneth Branagh
Death: the only true emotion felt in an apathetic world
~ Mitch Albom
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
~ Seneca the Younger
Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.
~ John Milton
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over
~ V. S. Naipaul
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
~ Patrick Henry
Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.
~ Jim Fixx
Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.
~ Richard Jeni
Death can be experienced once, winning maybe more, but losing can happen all the time.
~ Ron Howard
Capablanca was snatched too early from the chess world. With his death we have lost a great chess genius, the like of whom we will never see again.
~ Alexander Alekhine
I think leaving [death] can be as joyous as - probably more joyous than - being born, because being born is very physically uncomfortable for the baby.
~ Louise Hay
Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.
~ Franz Kafka
I'm for the death penalty, I'm pro-abortion, I'm pro-assisted suicide, I'm pro-regular suicide. Anything that'll get the traffic moving.
~ Bill Maher
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
~ Sitting Bull