Death Quotes

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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
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… — Aristotle
I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are… — Giorgio Armani
I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left… — J. J. Abrams
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating,… — Karen Armstrong
Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a… — Matthew Arnold
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. — John James Audubon
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. — Saint Augustine
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. — Marcus Aurelius
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. — Marcus Aurelius
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. — Marcus Aurelius
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind,… — Marcus Aurelius
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life… — Emilie Autumn

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