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Death Quotes and Sayings

The goal of all life is death
Sigmund Freud

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

He who doesn�t fear death dies only once
Giovanni Falcone

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man
Percival Arland Ussher

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life
Albert Einstein

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor
Homer

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it
Alice Walker

There are so many little dyings that it doesn�t matter which of them is death
Kenneth Patchen

People living deeply have no fear of death
Anaiis Nin

Death is the surest calculation that can be made
Ludwig B�chner

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing
Anais Nin

Death is a distant rumor to the young
Andrew A. Rooney

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between
Ani Difranco

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain
Anthony Robbins

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

Suicide is man�s way of telling God, �You can�t fire me
I quit� – Bill Maher

Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole, Of life that quickens in the sod
Charles Hanson Towne

If we don�t know life, how can we know death?
Confucius

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

Our birth is nothing but our death begun
Edward Young

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death
Erik H. Erikson

Death is a debt we all must pay
Euripides

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in
George Bernard Shaw

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live
Henry Van Dyke

Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men
Herodotus

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go
Jean de La Fontaine

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death
Leonardo da Vinci

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die
Leonardo Da Vinci

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
Madame de Stael

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure
J.K. Rowling

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

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live
Norman Cousins

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one�s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace
Oscar Wilde

Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings
Socrates

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

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived
Willa Cather

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