• One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.0 · 45 votes · 182 reads

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• One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 87 reads

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• Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 12 votes · 143 reads

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• Our last garment is made without pockets.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  5.0 · 57 votes · 114 reads

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• Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 55 reads

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• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.7 · 43 votes · 56 reads

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• Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 36 votes · 50 reads

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• Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the f

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 200 reads

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• Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  4.8 · 34 votes · 108 reads

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall aw

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 22 reads

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• Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 200 reads

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• See in what peace a Christian can die.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 8 reads

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• Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.9 · 48 votes · 58 reads

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• Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.5 · 42 votes · 46 reads

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• Thank Heaven! the crisis -The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last -, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 57 votes · 44 reads

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• That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.8 · 29 votes · 133 reads

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• That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.6 · 44 votes · 10 reads

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• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  5.0 · 17 votes · 21 reads

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• The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.5 · 34 votes · 195 reads

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• The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.9 · 26 votes · 25 reads

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• The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.0 · 57 votes · 52 reads

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• The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 56 reads

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• The fear of death is worse than death.

  

  Robert Browning

  PoetBritish1812 · 19th century

  5.0 · 13 votes · 64 reads

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• The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.4 · 63 votes · 62 reads

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• The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.4 · 57 votes · 70 reads

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• The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.3 · 5 votes · 151 reads

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• The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.2 · 7 votes · 0 reads

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• The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 37 reads

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• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.8 · 59 votes · 196 reads

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• The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• The undiscovered country from whose born no traveler returns. [Hamlet]

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.9 · 19 votes · 37 reads

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• The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 97 reads

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• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 176 reads

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• The world is the mirror of myself dying.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 85 reads

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• There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the wor

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 81 reads

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.9 · 45 votes · 62 reads

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• There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.6 · 38 votes · 194 reads

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• There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 129 reads

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• These have not the hope to die.

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  4.9 · 62 votes · 151 reads

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• Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 12 votes · 17 reads

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• Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is t

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 8 votes · 109 reads

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• Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  4.7 · 42 votes · 135 reads

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• To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.4 · 19 votes · 149 reads

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• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 38 reads

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• To die is landing on some distant shore.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 128 reads

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• To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 13 reads

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• To fear death is to misunderstand life.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 27 votes · 138 reads

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• To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew q

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.6 · 39 votes · 194 reads

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• To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 45 reads

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• To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 34 votes · 100 reads

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• Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 129 reads

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• Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 180 reads

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• We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 180 reads

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• We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 31 reads

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• We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.4 · 21 votes · 176 reads

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• We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 28 votes · 149 reads

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• We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead - and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 6 votes · 115 reads

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• We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 140 reads

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• Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.5 · 59 votes · 19 reads

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• What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill? You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep, you were not bothered by things like that. Oil and water were the same as wind and air to you.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 99 reads

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• What shall he fear that does not fear death.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.1 · 9 votes · 175 reads

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• When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 172 reads

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• When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 35 votes · 157 reads

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• When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 51 votes · 9 reads

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• When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did - in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 55 votes · 39 reads

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• When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 191 reads

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• When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 191 reads

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• When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.4 · 52 votes · 187 reads

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• When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself w

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.8 · 54 votes · 114 reads

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• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 69 reads

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• Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 162 reads

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• Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 31 votes · 119 reads

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• Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.7 · 32 votes · 38 reads

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• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.0 · 8 votes · 17 reads

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