Death Quotes
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"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"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
-Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
-George Bernard Shaw
-George Bernard Shaw
"O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse."
-Aeschylus
-Aeschylus
"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."
-Virgil
-Virgil
"Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish."
-Sophocles
-Sophocles
"Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings."
-Horace Mann
-Horace Mann
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."
-Epicurus
-Epicurus
"The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them."
-Lois McMaster Bujold
-Lois McMaster Bujold
"If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age."
-George F. Burns
-George F. Burns
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
-Woody Allen
-Woody Allen
"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."
-Jonathan Swift
-Jonathan Swift
"For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."
-Johnny Carson
-Johnny Carson
"For certain is death for the bornAnd certain is birth for the dead;Therefore over the inevitableThou shouldst not grieve."
-Bhagavad Gita
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