Death Quotes XIII

DEATH QUOTES XIII

quotations about death

In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, "Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us."

JOAN HALIFAX

Being with Dying

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Death has no need to be cruel, taking people's lives is more than enough.

JOSé SARAMAGO

Death with Interruptions

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O, the one happiness, when, out of breath,
Our feet slip, and we stumble upon death!

ARTHUR SYMONS

"The Beggars"

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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

WILLIAM HAZLITT

Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners

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Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

DON DELILLO

Underworld

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No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business."

PAUL E. TSONGAS

New York Times, Jan. 14, 1987

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Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

BERTOLT BRECHT

The Mother

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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

ANTONIN ARTAUD

Selected Writings

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You still believe in death... that's just so... quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The Independent Review, Mar. 25, 2004

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For a single path leads to the house of Hades.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Telephos

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Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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The death for the driver was egregiously bad: being impaled is never anyone's exit of choice.

JEFF ABBOTT

The Last Minute

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Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

EIJI YOSHIKAWA

Musashi

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There are always potential rogues who, seeing an opportunity, will flirt with death and then, at the very last moment, will be surprised to have met with it so easily.

PIERRE MAGNAN

The Messengers of Death

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Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

D. H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers

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Death will come and it will have your eyes.

CESARE PAVESE

Death Will Come and It Will Have Your Eyes

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Death or glory, death or glory
March forever in the sound and fury