13,737 Quotes About Death


  • Author Stevie Smith
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    Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

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  • Author Alice Hoffman
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    But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

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  • Author Mark Twain (Letters From the Earth)
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    But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

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  • Author Anthony Burgess
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    Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

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