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Quotes About Death

If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!)
~ Sarah J. Pepper
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
~ Isaac Asimov
I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.
~ Mark Twain
Only those persons who have lived, really lived, are ready, welcoming, receptive, thankful to death. Then death is not the enemy. Then death becomes the fulfillment.
~ Rajneesh
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
~ Barbara Boxer
Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken. Awaken. Take heed, do not squander your life.
~ Dogen
Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.
~ John Owen
When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.
~ Raymond Carver
All who drink of this remedy recover in a short time except those whom it does not help, who all die.
~ Galen
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.
~ William Shakespeare
Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.
~ William Faulkner
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.
~ Brian Johnson
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.
~ Orhan Pamuk
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
~ Charles Bukowski
The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.
~ Will Rogers
It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.
~ Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.
~ Joe Hill
There will be plenty of time to sleep once you are dead
~ Benjamin Franklin
There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart.
~ Spike Milligan
What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.
~ Porfirio Diaz
Wake up! Time to die!
~ Brion James