Death is something we don’t like to think about. But many proverbs and quotes remind us that is is just around the corner.
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A centipede though dead will not fall.
A dead bee will make no honey.
A dead cherry tree will not blossom.
A loveless life is a living death.
A life without love or loved ones is worthless.A man can die but once.
A sad soul can kill you quicker than a germ.
John SteinbeckA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeAfter all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Quoted: Dumbledore
Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
Richard DawkinsAlthough September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.
Stephen HawkingAs a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da VinciAs long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Bernard ShawAshes or diamonds, foe or friend, we're all equal in the end.
Roger WatersBe a dreamer. If you don't know how to dream, you're dead.
Jim ValvanoBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
Kurt VonnegutBetter ten times ill than one time dead.
Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.
Bruce SpringsteenCoffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.
Dead as a dodo.
Dead men tell no tales.
Death is always news.
Death is the black camel that kneels before every door.
Death is the last doctor.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SocratesDeath must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar WildeDo not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Quoted: Dumbledore
Don't kid yourself that you're going to live again after you're dead; you're not. Make the most of the one life you've got. Live it to the full.
Richard DawkinsEach night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
Mahatma GandhiEven immortality has exceptions.
(unknown author)Source: TV Series: Once Upon a Time
Quoted: Merlin
Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. BarrieSource: Peter Pan
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let's do some living after we die
The Rolling StonesLet's do some living after we die
Source: From song lyrics: Wild Horses
How much of my brain tissue has to die before I die?
Steven PinkerSource: How the Mind Works
I choose a mortal life.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Arwen
Quote from the movie
I do not fear death.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings
Quoted: Aragorn
Quote from the movie
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Groucho MarxI personally would consider it an honour to be fossilized.
Richard DawkinsI regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
Stephen HawkingI think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
Roger WatersI think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.
Stephen HawkingI'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.
Mick JaggerI'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.
Stephen HawkingIf you are as old tomorrow as you are today, you are dead.
Toon HermansIn the long run, we are all dead!
John Maynard KeynesIt is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
It is not birth, marriage or death, but gastrulation, which is truly the most important time in your life.
Lewis WolpertJust as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
SenecaKilling for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.
Mick JaggerLet us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
BibleLife is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering, and knowledge is better than superstition and ignorance.
Steven PinkerLife on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.
Stephen Hawking