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A relationship requires a lot of work and commitment.

Greta Scacchi | Death

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

Lowell, James Russell | Death

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

Manilius | Death

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Herrick, Robert | Death

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.

Buddha | Death

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, Which hurts and is desired.

Shakespeare, William | Death

The path of immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of stars, and await a new beginning.

Divine Pymander, The | Death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Cicero | Death

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan | Death

The goal of all life is death.

Freud, Sigmund | Death

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Schiller, Johann Von | Death

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Cicero | Death

Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Khayyam, Omar | Death

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

Nagarjuna | Death

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.

Horace | Death

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Mencken, H.L. | Death

Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.

Gurdjieff | Death

Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Akhenaton | Death

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

Montaigne, Michel De | Death

If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.

Montaigne, Michel De | Death

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus, Titus Maccius | Death

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

Dhammapada, The | Death

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Montaigne, Michel De | Death

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord | Death

Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Miller, Joaquin | Death

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Goethe, Johann Von | Death

And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.

Harte, Bret | Death

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.

Stalin, Joseph | Death

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Francoise Sagan | Death

You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.

Robin Gibb | Death

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

David Carradine | Death

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Bob Dylan | Death

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

David Attenborough | Death

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Eliot Spitzer | Death

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

Lewis Mumford | Death

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo da Vinci | Death

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Clint Eastwood | Death

Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Stanislav Grof | Death

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

Mariah Carey | Death

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

Che Guevara | Death

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

Marlene Dietrich | Death

When we play 'Angel of Death', it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.

Kerry King | Death

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

W. C. Fields | Death

When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.

Eamon de Valera | Death

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Allen Klein | Death

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

Ralph Fiennes | Death

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

Russell Baker | Death

When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

Albert Brooks | Death

When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.

Adam Ant | Death

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

Maurice Sendak | Death

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Brendan Behan | Death

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

Friedrich Durrenmatt | Death

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

John Cusack | Death

What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Mario Puzo | Death

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike | Death

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?

Jessica Savitch | Death

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

Doug Coupland | Death

We see death constantly on film.

Michael Sheen | Death

We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.

George Lincoln Rockwell | Death

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife.

William Shatner | Death

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.

Angela Davis | Death

We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?

Brigitte Bardot | Death

We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death.

Umberto Eco | Death

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

Albert Camus | Death

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

Thornton Wilder | Death

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

Judy Garland | Death

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

Robert Falcon Scott | Death

We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.

Jonathan Kozol | Death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Graham Greene | Death

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

Bill Hicks | Death

Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.

Stephen Ambrose | Death

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

Aung San Suu Kyi | Death

Virtue alone has majesty in death.

Edward Young | Death

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh | Death

To himself everyone is immortal he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Samuel Butler | Death

To have been torn from the study would have been as death my time was entirely occupied with art.

John James Audubon | Death

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck | Death

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha | Death

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz | Death

To awake from death is to die in peace.

Douglas Horton | Death

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Sammy Davis, Jr. | Death

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.

Giada De Laurentiis | Death

Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.

Wilson Mizner | Death

Those who have the strength and the love to sit with a dying patient in the silence that goes beyond words will know that this moment is neither frightening nor painful, but a peaceful cessation of the functioning of the body.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | Death

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Arthur Schopenhauer | Death

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Angelina Jolie | Death

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain.

Lewis Thomas | Death

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

Thomas A. Edison | Death

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

Albert Camus | Death

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

Fran Lebowitz | Death

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Ernest Hemingway | Death

There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened.

Abu Bakr | Death

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen | Death

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

Peter Mullan | Death

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

Jennifer Lopez | Death

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Paula Poundstone | Death

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.

Bill Gates | Death

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Mary Catherine Bateson | Death

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Laura Linney | Death

The sole equality on earth is death.

Philip James Bailey | Death

The situation in the United States is becoming more dire for average ordinary Americans and the last thing we need to do is to spend money on death, destruction and war.

Cynthia McKinney | Death