Quotes about Dying
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"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist."
-Epicurus
-Epicurus
"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
-Jimi Hendrix
-Jimi Hendrix
"This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness."
-Angela Carter
-Angela Carter
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details."
-Andy Warhol
-Andy Warhol
"I picture my epitaph: "Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown"."
-Paul Newman
-Paul Newman
"A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death."
-Robert Maynard Hutchins
-Robert Maynard Hutchins
"They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color."
-Dennis Rodman
-Dennis Rodman
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
-Robert M. Hutchins
-Robert M. Hutchins
"Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death."
-Gilbert Highet
-Gilbert Highet
"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."
-Angelina Jolie
-Angelina Jolie
"Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying."
-Jean Cocteau
-Jean Cocteau
"Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil."
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
-Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade."
-Jim Bishop
-Jim Bishop
"So softly death succeeded life in her, She did but dream of heaven, and she was there."
-John Dryden
-John Dryden
"Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light."
-James Russell Lowell
-James Russell Lowell
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."
-Alexandre Dumas Père
-Alexandre Dumas Père
"People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend..."
-Jim Morrison
-Jim Morrison
"I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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