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Quotes about death




There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
Soren Kierkegaard






Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Jean de La Fontaine






I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci






Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer






The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain






Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche






My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled.
Jean Racine






To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle






Man has but three events in his life: to be born, to live, and to die. He is not conscious of his birth, he suffers at his death and he forgets to live.
Jean de La Bruyere






No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato






One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde






Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
Edvard Munch






Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi






Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.
Michel de Montaigne






Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius






It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius






The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare






I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon






If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
Jean de La Bruyere






Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca






Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
Socrates






It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.
Publius Vergilius Maro






For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
Albert Camus






In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt






There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Ernest Hemingway






It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Michel de Montaigne






Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus Aurelius






It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Voltaire






Death is a fearful thing.
William Shakespeare










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