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Quote 3106
Life is a predicament which precedes death.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2959
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overheadShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2895
The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destinyShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2868
I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same stateShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2864
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last returnShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2800
Museums are the cemeteries of the artsShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2743
Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleepby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2727
The poetry of the earth is never deadby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2700
“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2679
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic, if it is pulled out I shall dieShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2678
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearancesShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2664
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule beginsShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2605
I am not the least afraid to dieShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2567
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against itShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2531
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to dieShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2496
If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutterby: Anton ChekhovShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2476
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same lifeShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2471
I affirm, and would maintain, that true religion consists in proposing, as our great end, a growing likeness to the supreme beingShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2457
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past agesShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2431
The man who dies rich dies disgracedby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2383
We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from deathShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2373
Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes deathShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2360
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible afflictionShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2351
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paidShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2339
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to liveShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2328
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about itShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2286
We mortals cross the ocean of this world each in his average cabin of a lifeby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2281
Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my faceby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2276
Let age approve of youth, and death complete the sameby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2246
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to deathShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2227
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to deathShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2206
I feel monotony and death to be almost the sameby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2179
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.by: Francis BeaumontShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2051
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour doneShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2049
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after deathShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2033
The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be goodby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 2030
It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the livingShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1956
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken ofby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1927
Good-night! Good-night! as we so oft have said beneath this roof at midnight, in the days that are no more, and shall no more return. Thou has but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays to cover up the embers that still burn.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 1924
Death is not a journey into an unknown land; it is a voyage home. We are going, not to a strange country, but to our fathers house.by: John RuskinShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1920
The truest end of life, is to know the life that never endsby: William PennShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1919
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 1918
Love is timeless - death does not separate the lover from the belovedby: Khalil GibranShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1910
Parents hold their children's hands for just a little while .. their hearts foreverShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1909
Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts foreverShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1896
Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.by: Khalil GibranShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1895
There is a remedy for everything - it is called deathPortuguese proverbShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1893
Life is like the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majorityby: Edward YoungShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1891
In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 1890
Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakeningby: Sir Walter ScottShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1889
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 1888
Recovering from the death of your mother is not about forgetting, it's about feeling entitled to remember.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 1887
On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 1886
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undoneShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1885
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternityby: Mother TeresaShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1883
He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angelsShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1881
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are oneby: Khalil GibranShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1880
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happyEskimo proverbShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1879
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?by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1878
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joysShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1877
If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I’d walk right up to heaven and bring you home againunknownShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1876
Fear not death, for the sooner we die the longer we shall be immortalShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1875
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had oneShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1874
Grief is the price we pay for loveunknownShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1873
Life is a dream walking, death is a going homeChinese proverbShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1872
Gone yet not forgotten, although we are apart, your spirit lives within me, forever in my heartunknownShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1871
Death may be the greatest of all human blessingsby: SocratesShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1870
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternityby: William PennShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1869
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternityby: William PennShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1868
To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not deadby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1867
In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at nightShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1866
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delightby: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1865
While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.by: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1864
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can stealmonumental inscriptionShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1863
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has comeShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1862
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternityShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1817
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their lives, which infallibly destroy themby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1779
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honorby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1651
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laughShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1648
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 1519
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.by: Albert CamusShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1481
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrongShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1348
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to meby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1260
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generalsby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1251
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few surviveShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1199
The poetry of the earth is never deadby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 1094
All diseases run into one, old ageShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 880
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, diesby: John DonneShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 699
There's life in the old dog yet.from EnglandShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 639
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of deathby: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 625
What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too lightby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 610
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 605
Which death is preferably to every other? – The unexpectedShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 552
Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics - many timesShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 517
A man can die but once.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 511
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealthShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 499
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statisticby: Josef StalinShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 478
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a dayShowing Quotes on death
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Quote 432
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.Showing Quotes on death
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Quote 358
You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.by: Will RogersShowing Quotes on death
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