Death Quotes

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Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Pope John Paul II

Death

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

Life Death Hope Inspirational Motivatonal

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death

Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still

Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile b

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, whi

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.

Death Love Friendship Grief

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of

An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.

Death

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while i

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Death

He would make a lovely corpse.

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

Death

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, i

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Death

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

Jorge Luis Borges

Death

To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis Noble

To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to sufferThe Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,And by opposing end them: to die, to sleepNo more; and by a sleep, to say we endThe Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocksThat Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished. To die to sleep,To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

William Shakespeare

Death Pain Sleep Suicide

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupi

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.

Orson Scott Card

Death

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to sa

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him.

Death Humor Funny Thought Provoking

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

Death Parenting

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon

Death

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

Georges Bernanos

Death

I never see the prettiest thing -A cherry bough gone white w

I never see the prettiest thing -A cherry bough gone white with Spring -But what I think, How gay 'twould beTo hang me from a flowering tree.

Dorothy Parker, 'Cherry White',

Death

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to heali

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

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