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Quotes About Death

I'll praise my Maker while I've breath, And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my noblest powers; My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
~ J. C. Ryle
Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.
~ J. C. Watts
The American people are not just being taxed to death they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
~ J. D. Hayworth
Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
~ J. D. Salinger
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
~ J. D. Salinger
The New Testament without the miracles would be far easier to believe. But the trouble is, it would not be worth believing. Without the miracles the New Testament would contain an account of a holy man—not a perfect man, it is true, for He was led to make lofty claims to which He had no right—but a man at least far holier than the rest of men. But of what benefit would such a man, and the death which marked His failure, be to us?
~ J. Gresham Machen
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
~ J. J. Abrams
Death is just a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees.
~ Unknown
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
~ J. K. Rowling
Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.
~ J. K. Rowling
Death is just life's next big adventure.
~ J. K. Rowling
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
~ J. K. Rowling
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
~ J. K. Rowling
Would it hurt to die?
~ J. K. Rowling
It was not, after all, so easy to die.
~ J. K. Rowling
Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
~ J. K. Rowling
Death is a great adventure for a man with a well-organized mind.
~ J. K. Rowling
Near as I can figure, living has always been the primary cause of dying, and the sooner we all accept that simple truth, the better off we'll be." Well,
~ Unknown
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
~ J. P. Donleavy
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien