Best Death And Dying Sayings
329 Death And Dying quotes by 233 unique authors
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the Sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
— Idi Amin
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At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence,…
— Jean-Pierre Melville
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You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.
— Gena Rowlands
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Knowing about reincarnation helps us relax. It assists us with an understanding of death and dying. Death is not an end, quite the contrary.
— Frederick Lenz
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There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.
— Sigmund Freud
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When the people stare at the sky and dream of blessedness, or when they quiver with fear for hell after death, their eyes get blinded…
— Gerrard Winstanley
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I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
— Benjamin Franklin
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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and…
— Indira Gandhi
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did…
— Stanislav Grof
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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He would make a lovely corpse.
— Charles Dickens
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Dying is a wild night and a new road.
— Emily Dickinson
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I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
— Marlene Dietrich
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Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for…
— John Donne
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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
— John Donne
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last…
— Will Durant
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
— Havelock Ellis
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the…
— St. Jerome
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If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the…
— Dean Koontz
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