Death Quotes, Quotations & Sayings - Page 2
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes
Death is the poor man’s best physician.
Proverb
Death is the great leveller.
Proverb
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson
The human race is the only one that knows it must die, and it knows this only through its experience. A child brought up alone and transported to a desert island would have no more idea of death than a cat or a plant.
Voltaire
Death doesn’t bargain.
August Strindberg
Go and try to disprove death. Death will disprove you.
Ivan Turgnev
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Amelia Burr
Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.
Sydney Smith
Every man dies – Not every man really lives.
William Ross Wallace
Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
Gloria Steinem
I do really think that death will be marvellous…If there wasn’t death, I think you couldn’t go on.
Stevie Smith
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
Anonymous
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus
Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin
Death cancels everything but truth.
Proverb
Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.
Chuck Palahniuk
Any amusing deaths lately?
Maurice Bowra
Death is an acquired trait.
Woody Allen
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
Chuck Palahniuk
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome
Isaac Asimov
I shall have more to say when I am dead.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Andrew Young
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
The good die young.
Proverb
The good die young – because they see it’s no use living if you’ve got to be good”
John Barrymore
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