Death Like Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous…
— J. B. Priestley
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Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.
— Janet Morris
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Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such…
— Will Durant
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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
— William Cobbett
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To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have…
— Albert Einstein
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To lose a son under those circumstances - a violent death like my son went through, it just puts a burden on your heart.
— Brian Jones
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We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Death, like virtue, has its degrees.
— James O'Barr
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Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, the whole…
— Stephen Mitchell
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Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
— Charles Spurgeon
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Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point…
— Andre Comte-Sponville
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I certainly wanted for my mother a nice, quiet easy death like everyone else wants.
— Edmund Kemper
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And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
— William Ernest Henley
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Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Who Wrote These Death Like Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 30 Death Like Quotes, led by these top contributors: