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Death Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
- Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old…
- Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
- When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
- Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money…
- Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty.…
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not…
- Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
- Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
- 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…
- When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
- The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- 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… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — 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… — 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… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — 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