13,737 Quotes About Death



  • Author Cynan Jones
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    The two boys had come along and found the rabbit dying by the bank. The breeze was up a little and it was nice because it had been dry for so long, and still, and the rabbit was wet and matted like a cloth, like a dog when it gets wet. At first they thought it was dead. It had the shapelessness of meat.

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  • Author Virgil
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    See who I am, whose great age, exhausted and decayed and past the fertile time for truth, deludes me with imaginary dread when I prophesy of warring kings! Look now at this. I come from the Dread Sisters' station; and in my hand I bear war and death.

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  • Author Cormac McCarthy
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    He said that far from making men reflective or wise it was his experience that death often leads them to attribute great consequence to trivial things.

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