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  • To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

    Death   Dream   Halloween  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56
  • How long can you hear someone crying - how long can you hear someone dying - before you ask yourself why?

    Long   Dying   Cry  
    Song: How Long, Album: World in Motion, 1989
  • The idea is to die young as late as possible.

  • I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.

    Death   Dying   Dies  
  • It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

    Death   Evil   Dying  
    Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1824). “Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous”, p.56
  • To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

    Death   Children   Fear  
  • Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

    Life   Death   Adventure  
  • Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

    Death   Men   Darkness  
  • He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

  • Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever.

    Love   Death   Dream  
  • Once you're dead, you're made for life.

  • He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233
  • It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

    "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015.
  • Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

    Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.997, Penguin
  • While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

    Life   Death   Eulogy  
    Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.260, OUP Oxford
  • Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

    Death   Children   Dying  
    Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309
  • ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee

    John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”
  • Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?

    Death   Dying   Lasts  
    Aldous Huxley (2015). “Time Must Have a Stop”, p.181, Random House
  • Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

    "Postambule". "La Fin du Potomac". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1939.
  • The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

    Love   Life   Death  
  • Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

    Life   Inspiring   Death  
    'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.
  • As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity...of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

  • 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.

    Sympathy   Death   Sweet  
    Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan
  • I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”
  • Someone has somewhere commented on the fact that millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

    Anger in the Sky ch. 5 (1943)
  • We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

  • Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.40, Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”
  • No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

    Death   Suicide   Dying  
  • Do not seek death. Death will find you.

    "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.
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