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Quotations About Death

Death and dice level all distinction.
Samuel Foote
The Minor


Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
Essays


They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
Georg Büchner
Danton's Death


I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Jean Giraudoux
Amphitryon, 1929


He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck


Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.
Emily Dickinson


To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler


For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn


We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff


He who doesn't fear death dies only once.
Giovanni Falcone


Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
Donald A. Miller


No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
Euripides


The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu


God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
Unknown


In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.
Robert Ingersoll