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Quotes About Death

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate.
~ John Nelson Darby
The sense of death is most in apprehension.
~ William Shakespeare
When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.
~ Epicurus
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
~ Giacomo Casanova
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
~ Thornton Wilder
Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
~ Calvin Miller
Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother-Death.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
~ Jack Kerouac
Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.
~ Robert Browning
Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?
~ Alice Cary
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
Better be killed than frightened to death.
~ Robert Smith Surtees
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
~ Alexander Pope
We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.
~ James Joyce
To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.
~ Carlos Castaneda
I think it's necessary to keep moving forward. I've always said that nostalgia is death, really for anyone creative.
~ Cillian Murphy
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."
~ Tony Hsieh
In the interests of economy they condemned hundreds of children to death and I call it murder.
~ Unknown
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
~ John Milton
As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.
~ Marilyn Manson
EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH
~ Tupac Shakur
Sleep and death, two twins of winged race, Of matchless swiftness, but of silent pace.
~ Alexander Pope
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo