Best Death Comes Quotes
78 Death Comes quotes by 68 unique authors
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Let the mantle of worldly enjoyments hang loose about you, that it may be easily dropped when death comes to carry you into another world.
— Thomas Boston
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It gladdens me to know that Baldr’s father [Odin] makes ready the benches for a banquet. Soon we shall be drinking ale from the curved…
— Ragnar Lodbrok
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Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death…
— John Updike
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Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.
— Lian Hearn
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Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.
— Robert Bolt
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If we cannot remain present during sleep, if we lose ourselves every night, what chance do we have to be aware when death comes? If…
— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer…
— Hermann Broch
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In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return. Each separate being in…
— Laozi
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There is something tenderly appropriate in the serene death of the old. . . . When the duties of life have all been nobly done;…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips
— Muhammad Iqbal
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Big deal, death comes with the territory. See you in Disneyland.
— Richard Ramirez
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Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard…
— Arthur Miller
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What I do know is that with a celebrity's death comes an avalanche of media, and in that media is most often another death -…
— James Belushi
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
— John Donne
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down on their task…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison.
— Jerry Garcia
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
— Martin Scorsese
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[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in…
— Truman Capote
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Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.
— Brian Jacques
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After night comes day. After death comes life. Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone. You are loved.
— Anna McPartlin
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The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the…
— Christopher Pike
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Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it…
— Cormac McCarthy
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