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Quotes About Death

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
~ Alexander Payne
If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.
~ Johnny Ramone
I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.
~ Perez Hilton
I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
I think that laughter and death are closely related: comedy is the quintessential human reaction to the fear of death. It's probably linked with the fact that we are the only animals who know we must die.
~ Maurizio Cattelan
This country is being managed to death, being public related to death.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Money can come and go, and fame comes and goes. Peace of mind and a relationship with God is far more important, so this is the precedent that we've set in our lives. The bottom line is, we all die, so Jesus is the answer.
~ Phil Robertson
The home funeral - caring for the dead ourselves - changes our relationship to grieving. If you have been married to someone for 50 years, why would you let someone take them away the moment they die?
~ Caitlin Doughty
As we like to say on 'This Is Us,' death is not a release. Our main character has never been alive for the entire run!
~ Ron Cephas Jones
Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death.
~ William Gurnall
A lot of horror movies just look at how they can scare people, and no matter which character dies, you don't ever really feel enough to actually care.
~ Milly Shapiro
What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?
~ Donald Pleasence
I lost a sister to pneumonia, when she was 2 years old. She died at home, not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.
~ Mazie Hirono
I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.
~ Astrid Lindgren
A kid is always locked down inside their family. In the film, I felt like talking about loss and death, which we've had a lot of right now, but you know, the experience of lockdown maybe gave me more courage to believe we could create cinema while all locked in our houses.
~ Celine Sciamma
Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.
~ Morrie Schwartz
There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers' response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated.
~ Deborah Harkness
Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone else to. I certainly would not be lonely. It would be exciting never having to listen to another person again but just my own self droning on and on. That's why I write a blog. And I read it, too.
~ Roseanne Barr
Transhumanists are not fond of death. We would stop it if we could. To this end, we support research that holds out hope of a future in which humanity has defeated death.
~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.
~ Jose Saramago
It is from Shiith Ibn Adam that all humankind today is said to descend. It is also said that Balkh, the 'Mother of All Cities' as the first Arabs called it, a city once greater than Babylon and lovelier than Nineveh, is where Shiith died and was buried.
~ Terry Glavin
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
~ Drew Gilpin Faust