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Quotes About Death

Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.
~ Diane de Poitiers
Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!
~ Geraldo Rivera
Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Death comes to everyone. We must stand proud as Afghans in the defense of Islam.
~ Mohammed Omar
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.
~ Georges Bataille
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
~ Dan Brown, Inferno
Why do dying people never shed tears?
~ Max Frisch
The death of the spirit is the price of progress.
~ Eric Voegelin
Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.
~ Richard Adams
Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.
~ Mary Oliver
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
~ Jack London
Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
~ George Orwell
The soul is not part of the incarnation. It comes into the incarnation. And the soul is not afraid of death because it has done it so many times.
~ Ram Dass
What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.
~ Kabir
Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.
~ Billy Graham
Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
~ J. P. Donleavy
I lost interest in firearms because we had a dog that was scared to death of the sound of a rifle shot.
~ James Spader
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
~ Derrick Jensen
It is unity that doth enchant me. By her power I am free though thrall, happy in sorrow, rich in poverty, and quick even in death.
~ Giordano Bruno
Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates.
~ Unknown
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~ Dodie Smith
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
~ Jean Cocteau