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Quotes About Death

And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death had arrived, to walk the streets in the City of Blue Fire.
~ Steven Erikson
In order to reclaim the joy and passion of leadership, we must walk the valley of the shadow of death and name the cost of leadership.
~ Dan B. Allender
How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The problem with death is absence
~ Roger Rosenblatt
Australia as a nation, as a set of cities and some regional centres, that project died a death and we didn't get it up, but I still think there's merit in that.
~ Susan Oliver
In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
~ Paul Tillich
Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.
~ Brian Patten
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
~ Jorge Luís Borges
My spirit is too weak--mortality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep, And each imagin'd pinnacle and steep Of godlike hardship tells me I must die Like a sick Eagle looking at the sky.
~ John Keats
Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.
~ J. C. Watts
I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
~ Paul McCartney
What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.
~ John Powell
I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
~ Albert Einstein
The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.
~ David Cronenberg
One family--we dwell in Him, One church above, beneath, Though now divided by the stream, The narrow stream of death.
~ Charles Wesley
I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.
~ Bob Dylan
Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green.
~ William Shakespeare
Death is an eternal sleep.
~ Unknown
Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
~ John Donne
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
~ Aldous Huxley
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
~ John Dryden
Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!
~ George Carlin
Death lies on her like an untimely frost.
~ William Shakespeare
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
~ Seneca the Younger