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Quotations by Subject: Death
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.: Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
The report of my death was an exaggeration.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!: Matt Frewer, as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"
If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.: Matthew V. Lewis, House M.D., Last Resort, 2008
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), upon being told the cost of an operation
It's sad when our daddies die. Makes us one less person inside.: Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Phaedo
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims
Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 10-20-09
I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-29-2006
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Grosse Pointe 48230, 1993
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.: Rodney Yee
I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.: Roger Ebert (1942 - ), People Magazine, 09-19-11
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Death is not the worst; rather, in vain To wish for death, and not to compass it.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, 1967
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.: William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Cymbeline, Act III, sc. 4

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