Death Quotes

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
Adam Clarke

State, Sin, Glory

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff

Life, Cannot, Standing

When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Faith, Lost, Honor

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.
Maureen O'Hara

Birthday, Time, Die

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
Georges Bernanos

Love, Hell, Longer

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Barry Cornwall

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
Arlo Guthrie

Living, Dead, Birth

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
Daniel Barenboim

Speak, Dead, Tradition

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
Matthew Green

Stone, Giant, Fling

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Men, Spiritual, Nation

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

Strength, Love, Business

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

Life, Fear, Pain

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing, Free, Spirit

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Growth, Birth, Cease

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

Life, Health, Suffering

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain

Greatly, Reports

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha

Lived, Wisely, Feared

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

Courage, Scared, Anyway

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare

Die, Before, Once

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.
Steve Jobs

Failure, Life, Fear

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Funny, Afraid, Happens

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.
Kurt Cobain

Peace, Best, Hope

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine

Fear, Love, Strength

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