Famous Quotations
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Q1
Death - the last sleep?
No, it is the final awakening.
Walter Scott
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Q2
When you are born, you cry, and the world rejoices.
When you die, you rejoice, and the world cries.
Buddhist Saying
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Q3
The song is ended,
but the melody lingers on...
Irving Berlin
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Q4
There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
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Q5
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words
left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Q6
Perhaps they are not stars but rather
openings in Heaven where the love of our lost
ones shines down to let us know they are happy
Eskimo Legend
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Q7
Your end, which is endless,
is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air.
Buddhist Saying
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Q8
As a well spent day brings happy sleep,
so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo DaVinci
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Q9
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children
of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run
than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
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Q10
Death is not the end. Death can never be the end.
Death is the road. Life is the traveller.
The Soul is the Guide
Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life
Our soul thinks of Immortality.
Sri Chinmoy
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Q11
Say not in grief that she is no more
but say in thankfulness that she was.
A death is not the extinguishing of a light,
but the putting out of the lamp
because the dawn has come.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Q12
People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in; their true beauty is revealed only if their light is from within.
Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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Q13
We make a living by what we get;
we make a life by what we give
Winston Churchill
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Q14
The boundaries between life and death
are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say where one ends
and where the other begins?
Edgar Allen Poe
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Q15
In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
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Q16
When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun.
William Shakespeare
Scene 2-Romeo and Juliet
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Q17
"I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving
for the life I have had than that everyone
should be jolly at my funeral "
Admiral Lord Mountbatten
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Q18
Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark;
and as that natural fear in children
is increased with tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
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Q19
Men fear death, as if unquestionably the
greatest evil, and yet no man knows that
it may not be the greatest good.
William Mitford
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Q20
I know death has ten thousand several doors
for men to take their exits
John Webster
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Q21
I have seen death too often to believe in death,
It is not an ending, but a withdrawal.
As one who finishes a long journey.
Stills the motor. Turns off the lights
Steps from the car
And walks up the path
To the home that awaits him
Unknown
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Q22
It is not length of life,
but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Q23
Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Q24
Say not in grief he is no more - but live in thankfulness that he was
Hebrew Proverb
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Q25
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
J.K. Rowling
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Q26
I fall asleep in the full and certain hope
That my slumber shall not be broken;
And that, though I be all-forgetting,
Yet shall I not be all-forgotten,
But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds
of those I have loved.
Samuel Butler
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Q27
Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime,
bid me 'Good-morning.'
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
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Q28
Some are bound to die young
By dying young a person stays young
in people's memory.
If he burns brightly before he dies,
his brightness shines for all time
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Q29
Sometimes, when one person is absent,
the whole world seems depopulated
Allphonse de Lamartine
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Q30
The comfort of having a friend may be taken away,
but not that of having had one.
Seneca
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Q31
Grief is the price we pay for love
Queen Elizabeth II
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Q32
Anything that is of value in life
only multiplies when it is given.
Deepak Chopra -
Q33
Yesterday is a memory, tomorrow is
a mystery and today is a gift,
which is why it is called the present.
What the caterpillar perceives is the end;
to the butterfly is just the beginning.
Everything that has a beginning has an ending.
Make your peace with that and all will be well
Buddhist Saying
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Q34
Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
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Q35
Death is the veil which those who live call life:
They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Blysshe Shelley
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Q36
I submit to you that if a man
hasn't discovered something
he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr
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Q37
Who knows when the end is reached?
Death may be the beginning of life.
How do I know that love of life is not a
delusion after all?
How do I know that he who dreads
to die is as a child who has lost the
way and cannot find his way home?
How do I know that the dead repent of
having previously clung to life?
Chuang Tse
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Q38
Perhaps passing through the gates of death
is like passing quietly through the gate
in a pasture fence. On the other side,
you keep walking, without the need to
look back. No shock, no drama, just the
lifting of a plank or two in a simple
wooden gate in a clearing.
Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices,
but just the silent crossing of a meadow.
Mark Helprin -
Q39
We sometimes congratulate ourselves
at the moment of waking from a troubled dream;
it may be so the moment after death.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Q40
If death could be seen as a beautiful
clear lake, refreshing and buoyant,
then when a consciousness moves towards
its exit from a body there would be that
delightful plunge and it would simply swim away.
Pat Rodegast
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Q41
In the godforsaken,
obscene quicksand of life,
there is a deafening alleluia
rising from the souls
of those who weep,
and of those who weep
with those who weep.
If you watch, you will see
The hand of God putting the stars back
in their skies one by one.
Ann Weems
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Q42
I do not want the peace
which passeth understanding,
I want the understanding
which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
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Q43
The people who pretend that dying
is rather like strolling into the next room
always leave me unconvinced.
Death, like birth,
must be a tremendous event.
J. B. Priestley
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Q44
Tis after death that we measure men.
James Barron Hope
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Q45
'Tis the maddest trick a man
can ever play in his whole life, - to let his breath sneak out of his body
without any more ado,
and without so much as a rap o'er the pate,
or a kick of the guts;
to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle,
and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Q46
A belief in hell and the knowledge
that every ambition is doomed
to frustration at the hands of a skeleton
have never prevented the majority
of human beings from
as though death were no more
than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley
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Q47
A considerable percentage
of the people we meet on the street
are who are empty inside,
that is, they are actually already dead.
It is fortunate for us that we do not see
and do not know it.
If we knew what a number of people
are actually dead and what a number
of these dead people govern our lives,
we should go mad with horror.
George Gurdjieff
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Q48
A dead atheist
is someone who is all dressed up
with no place to go.
James Duffecy
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Q49
A dying man needs to die,
as a sleepy man needs to sleep,
and there comes a time when it is wrong,
as well as useless, to resist.
Steward Alsop
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Q50
A few can touch the magic string,
and noisy fame is proud to win them:
Alas for those that never sing,
but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Q51
A fiction about soft or easy deaths
is part of the mythology of most diseases
that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
Susan Sontag
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Q52
A good man dies when a boy goes wrong.
Anonymous
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Q53
A human act once set in motion flows
on forever to the great account.
Our deathlessness is in what we do,
not in what we are.
George Meredith
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Q54
A man does not die of love
or his liver or even of old age;
he dies of being a man.
Percival Arland Ussher
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Q55
A person doesn't die when he should
but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Q56
A punishment to some,
to some a
and to many a favor.
Seneca
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Q57
A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Q58
A wooden bed is better than a golden coffin.
Russian Proverb
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Q59
After life's fitful fever he sleeps
Treason has done his worst.
Nor steel nor poison,
malice domestic, foreign levy,
nothing can touch him further.
William Shakespeare
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Q60
After your death
you will be what you were
before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Q61
Against you I will fling myself,
unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
Virginia Woolf
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Q62
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
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Q63
In three words
I can sum up everything
I've learned about life:
it goes on.
Robert Frost
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Q64
Do not dwell in the past,
do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind
on the present moment.
Buddha
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Q65
A life spent making mistakes
is not only more honorable,
but more useful
than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw -
Q66
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Q67
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
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Q68
Don't go around saying
the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing.
It was here first.
Mark Twain
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Q69
I still find each day too short
for all the thoughts I want to think,
all the walks I want to take,
all the books I want to read,
and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
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Q70
Any idiot can face a crisis
- it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
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Q71
When I stand before God
at the end of my life,
I would hope that I would not
a single bit of talent left,
and could say,
'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck
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Q72
A man sooner or later
that he is the master-gardener
of his soul,
the director of his life.
James Allen
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Q73
Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life;
define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
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Q74
Believe that life is worth living
and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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Q75
Every man dies.
Not every man really lives.
William Wallace
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Q76
I have a simple philosophy:
Fill what's empty.
Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Q77
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling
of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
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Q78
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg
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Q79
I arise in the morning
torn between a desire to improve the world
and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
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Q80
Change your life today.
Don't gamble on the future,
act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Q81
You will never be happy
if you continue to search
for what happiness consists of.
You will never live if you are looking
for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
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Q82
Life is a dream for the wise,
a game for the fool,
a comedy for the rich,
a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem
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Q83
Go confidently
in the direction of your dreams.
Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
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Q84
Don't let life discourage you;
everyone who got where he is
had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans
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Q85
Don't go through life,
grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
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Q86
He who has a why to live
can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Q87
Every creature is better alive than dead,
men and moose and pine trees,
and he who understands it aright
will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Q88
Everything has been figured out,
except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Q89
A person will sometimes devote all his life
to the development of one part of his body
- the wishbone.
Robert Frost
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Q90
Only a life lived for others
is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
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Q91
Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor,
many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Q92
I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry
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Q93
A healthful hunger for a great idea
is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow
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Q94
Here is the test to find whether your mission
on Earth is finished:
if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach
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Q95
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
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Q96
I think I've discovered the secret of life
- you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
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Q97
Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump
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Q98
Begin at once to live,
and count each separate day
as a separate life.
Seneca
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Q99
My formula for living is quite simple.
I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night.
In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
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Q100
Fortunately analysis is not the only way
to resolve inner conflicts.
Life itself still remains
a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
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Q101
Life consists not in holding good cards
but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
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Q102
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson