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Quotes About Death

The gloomy shade of death.
~ William Shakespeare
What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!
~ William Shakespeare
Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.
~ William Shakespeare
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover.
~ William Shakespeare
O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!
~ William Shakespeare
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.
~ William Shakespeare
Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death.
~ William Shakespeare
When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.
~ William Shakespeare
Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.
~ William Shakespeare
The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!
~ William Shakespeare
I think you die the way you live.
~ William Shatner
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
~ William Shenstone
I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.
~ Zadie Smith
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart, " I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
~ Socrates
I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst.Death isn't just an idea.
~ Mary Oliver
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
~ Mark Twain
And will 'a not come again? And will 'a not come again? No, no, he is dead, Go to thy death bed: He will never come again.
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Believe in me and you shall die, forever.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life.Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.
~ Horace, The Odes of Horace
A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted.
~ Mother Teresa