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Quotes About Death

To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
~ Augustus Toplady
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.
~ Big Daddy Kane
Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.
~ Thomas Hardy
When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Death had to take Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake, there would have been a fight.
~ Thomas R. Marshall
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'
~ Tom Robbins
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us
~ Jim Morrison
The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.
~ Brian May
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
~ William Wycherley
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.
~ Tom Robbins
Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.
~ Mengistu Haile Mariam
Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.
~ John Lydon
Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?
~ James Dashner
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
~ Samuel Butler
There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.
~ Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Death's vigilance is eternal, so shall mine be.
~ Dana Gould
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
~ Pema Chodron
Death was Patrick Henry's second choice.
~ Wavy Gravy
Ants and savages put strangers to death.
~ Bertrand Russell
Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.
~ N. T. Wright
Here lies Matthew Mudd, Death did him no hurt; When alive he was only Mudd, But now he's only dirt.
~ Mel Blanc