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Quotes About Death

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.
~ Giancarlo Esposito
I found out about Jonathan Winters death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashians divorce before she did.
~ Gilbert Gottfried
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
~ Glen Duncan
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.
~ Gore Vidal
The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.
~ Guru Nanak
And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again.
~ William Shakespeare
Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.
~ Harold Brodkey
Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.
~ Harold Brodkey
Thou ominous and fearful owl of death.
~ William Shakespeare
Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.
~ Hans Christian Andersen
The police came to me to say I had death threats and that I had to be careful!
~ Heather Mills
Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.
~ Heinrich Heine
I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.
~ Helene Cixous
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.
~ Theodor Adorno
When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.
~ Theognis of Megara
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
~ Thomas Browne
And die with decency.
~ Thomas Otway
Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton.
~ Thomas Traherne
Death strips all men of dignity.
~ Tobsha Learner
I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.
~ Tom Robbins
The mystics will tell you death is perfectly safe. A violent act will beget a violent act; it is simply a law.
~ Tom Shadyac
Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a large heap of derision when you get home.
~ Tony Bishop
I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!
~ Usher