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Quotes About Death

Death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.
~ Lucretius
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded
~ William Blake
Nature in one of her beneficent moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
~ Bram Stoker
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
When Tibetan lamas die they stay in a realization of clear light nature of the mind for several days or weeks.
~ Tenzin Palmo
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.
~ Virginia Woolf
As in the eye of Nature he has lived, So in the eye of Nature let him die!
~ William Wordsworth
All humans are rogues. Cured only by death.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.
~ Titus Lucretius Carus
Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way.
~ Kate Morton, The Lake House
Unsustainable energy consumption has humanity locked into a death spiral with nature.
~ Steven Magee
Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn't mean we have to bow and gravel to it.
~ Donna Tartt
The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death.
~ Roman Payne, The Wanderess
The more I love nature the least I'm afraid to die. I wouldn't mind being a part of the trees and the place that makes everything possible.
~ Alex Guidroz
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.
~ Joe Hill, The Fireman
To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.
~ John Howard Griffin
The author is still dead, folks!!
~ A. Cretan
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.
~ T. S. Eliot
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
~ Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.
~ Sally Stanford
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I die content, I die for the liberty of my country.
~ Thomas Paine
Peace is a certificate you get in the grave.
~ Peter Tosh
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.
~ Simon Bolivar