death Quotes

“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.”

― Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

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“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“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, The Essays of Francis Bacon

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“For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

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“Truth . . . As terrible as death. But harder to find.”

― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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