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Death and Dying QuotesFamous Death and Dying quotes by popular authors such as William Shakespeare, John Donne, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Frost, Oliver Wendell Holmes and others.
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[highlight-text]Let the tent be struck.
Robert E. Lee
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[highlight-text]He was dying all his life.
Hector Berlioz
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[highlight-text]At last God caught his eye.
Harry Secombe
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[highlight-text]He that dies pays all debts.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]I am going to seek a great Perhaps.
Frangois Rabelais
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[highlight-text]Dying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Jean de la Fontaine
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[highlight-text]I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]Oh death you can wait; keep your distance.
Andre Chenier
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[highlight-text]If this is dying I don't think much of it.
Lytton Strachey
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[highlight-text]Death is just a distant rumour to the young.
Andy Roomy
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[highlight-text]He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.
Edward Young
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[highlight-text]To die is a debt we must all of us discharge.
Euripides
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[highlight-text]Death - the last voyage the longest the best.
Thomas Wolfe
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[highlight-text]Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.
Harry S. Truman
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[highlight-text]You have to learn to do everything even to die.
Gertrude Stein
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[highlight-text]The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]As men we are all equal in the presence of death.
Publilius Syrus
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[highlight-text]Death is a delightful hiding-place for weary men.
Herodotus
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[highlight-text]In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]Things have a terrible permanence when people die.
Joyce Kilmer
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[highlight-text]The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Sir Thomas Browne
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[highlight-text]Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]You don't die in the United States you underachieve.
Jerzy Kosinski
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[highlight-text]Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.
Jewish Proverb
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[highlight-text]Death twitches my ear. 'Live ' he says 'I am coming'.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Who never caused others to die Seldom rates a statue.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
Jewish Proverb
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[highlight-text]A solemn funeral is inconceivable to the Chinese mind.
Lin Yutang
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[highlight-text]Mausoleum n: the final and funniest folly of the rich.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Epicurus
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[highlight-text]Most people would die sooner than think; in fact they do.
Bertrand Russell
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[highlight-text]A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
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[highlight-text]One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.
Michel de Montaigne
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[highlight-text]The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.
Ernest Becker
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[highlight-text]It may be that we have all lived before and died and this is Hell.
A. L. Prusick
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[highlight-text]Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.
Charles Caleb Colton
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[highlight-text]The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch Which hurts and is desired.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
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[highlight-text]If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]Death is terrible to Cicero desirable to Cato and indifferent to Socrates.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.
Alan Gregg
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[highlight-text]In nature there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
Edwin Way Teale
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[highlight-text]For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.
John Oxenham
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[highlight-text]And I looked and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death.
Bible
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[highlight-text]All human things are subject to decay And when fate summons monarchs must obey.
John Dryden
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[highlight-text]In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
Fedirico Garcia Lorca
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[highlight-text]Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
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[highlight-text]Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.
Jean Cameron
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[highlight-text]Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath And after many a summer dieth the swan.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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[highlight-text]When a man dies he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life.
Charles Peguy
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[highlight-text]Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so.
John Donne
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[highlight-text]One short sleep past will wake eternally And death shall be no more; Death thou shalt die.
John Donne
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[highlight-text]For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson
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[highlight-text]There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.
Robert Frost
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[highlight-text]It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
Thomas Lord Horder
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[highlight-text]When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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[highlight-text]There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
Marcus Aurelius
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[highlight-text]Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
Ambrose Bierce
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[highlight-text]Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.
Archibald MacLeish
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[highlight-text]Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.
George Santayana
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[highlight-text]At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality.
Janet Harris
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[highlight-text]There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.
Charles Mackay
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[highlight-text]If I was on death row and given one last meal I would ask for a fortune cookie. 'Come on 'long prosperous life!''
Mitch Hedberg
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[highlight-text]Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson
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[highlight-text]I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.
B. F. Skinner
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[highlight-text]Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
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[highlight-text]It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'
Dorothy Parker
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[highlight-text]It is a far far better thing that I do than anything I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
Charles Dickens
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[highlight-text]Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
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[highlight-text]Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
Sigmund Freud
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[highlight-text]Poisons pain you; Rivers are damp; Acid stains you; And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
Dorothy Parker
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[highlight-text]After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Most persons have died before they expired - died to all earthly longings so that the last breath is only as it were the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]I believe that the struggle against death the unconditional and self-willed determination to live is the mode of power behind the lives and activities of all outstanding men.
Hermann Hesse
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[highlight-text]No 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church door; but 'tis enough 'twill serve: ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered I warrant for this world.
William Shakespeare
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[highlight-text]I hate funerals and would not attend my Own if it could be avoided but it is well for every man to stop once in a while to think of what sort of a collection of mourners he is training for his final event.
Robert T. Morris
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[highlight-text]Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken get to work on that.
Epictetus
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[highlight-text]A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour and survival a thing not beyond the bounds of possibility.
Aldous Huxley
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[highlight-text]When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No it is better not' he said 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.
Woodrow Wilson
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[highlight-text]Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman