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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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma GandhiMany that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Gandalf
Most people would sooner die than start to think. In fact - they do so.
Bertrand RussellMy armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 12 - Inside Information
Quoted: Smaug
My goal in life is to survive until I am dead.
MinkukelMy thoughts, my beliefs, my feelings are all in my brain. My brain is going to rot.
Richard DawkinsNever say die.
Never give up.Nobody wants to get old, but nobody wants to die young either.
Keith RichardsOld age is a disease that you die from.
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
Herbert HooverOne dead fly spoils much good ointment.
One thousand Americans stop smoking every day – by dying.
(unknown author)Our species is the only one not allowed to go to the vet to be painlessly put out of our misery.
Richard DawkinsParting is such sweet sorrow.
William ShakespearePeople are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
Greta ThunbergPeople 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 MorrisonPity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
Mark TwainPushing up daisies.
To be dead.Retirement kills more people than hard work ever did.
Malcolm ForbesSing me back home before I die
Merle HaggardSource: Lyrics: Sing Me Back Home
Sleep and Death, who are twin brothers.
HomerSleep is the cousin of death.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Brooke ShieldsSome people think soccer is a matter of life and death. It is much more serious than that.
(unknown author)Sooner or later I'm going to die, but I'm not going to retire.
Margaret MeadThe child who died too soon was always beautiful and intelligent.
The death throes of an elephant are not so annoying as a living flea.
The essential point, as I have put it before, is that there are many more ways of being dead than of being alive.
Richard DawkinsThe first breath is the beginning of death.
The fly heeds not death; eating is all to him.
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley MontaguThe meaning of life is to be quoted when you are dead.
MinkukelThe readiness is all.
William ShakespeareSource: Hamlet
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
OshoThe smallest insect may cause death by its bite.
The sun has left the sky, old man
The birds have flown away
And no one came to cry, old man
Goodbye, old man, goodbye
Randy NewmanThe birds have flown away
And no one came to cry, old man
Goodbye, old man, goodbye
Source: Song lyrics: Old Man
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror – not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
David ByrneThe ugly vulture eats the dead
Guiltless of murder's taint.
The heron swallows living fish
And looks like an ascetic saint.
Guiltless of murder's taint.
The heron swallows living fish
And looks like an ascetic saint.
There is only one god, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: "Not today."
George R.R. MartinSource: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1: A Game of Thrones
Thousands stop smoking every day – by dying.
(unknown author)To die will be an awfully big adventure.
J.M. BarrieSource: Peter Pan
We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.
(unknown author)What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave BarryWhat is it like to be dead?
(unknown author)What is sport to the boy is the death of the bird.
What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse.
(unknown author)When I am dying, I should like my life to be taken out under a general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.
Richard DawkinsWhen the moth flies around the flame, it burns itself to death.
Where there is death in a thousand forms, we die of fear itself.
Richard de Bury