Best His Death Quotations
217 His Death quotes by 189 unique authors
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Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.
— David Hume
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Jesus on the cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it; he defeats it with…
— Pope Francis
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At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I was nineteen my…
— Sergei Prokofiev
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Jesus was not conquered by death. By His death, He conquered death.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.
— Lisa M
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Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving…
— Brendan Behan
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After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to…
— John Updike
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I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said,…
— Stewart Udall
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Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always seem untimely.
— James A. Baldwin
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After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark,…
— Karel Capek
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
— Paddy Chayefsky
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Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly…
— John Bunyan
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His death eclipsed the gayety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.
— Samuel Johnson
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Jason Oliver C. Smith, a big dumb guy who was tan, died March 30 of lung cancer and old age. He was 13 years old…
— Anna Quindlen
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I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.
— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
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The man committing suicide controls the moment of his death by executing a back flip.
— Jack Goldstein
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It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death…
— Che Guevara
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Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I…
— Michel Gondry
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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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Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain; No fear lest he should swerve or faint; "His life is Christ,…
— John Keble
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I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided…
— Ian Mcewan
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The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O…
— Guru Nanak
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Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he…
— Giorgio Vasari
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The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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