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I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow on death

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn on death

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.
Stewart Alsop on death

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
Annie Lennox on death

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
Katharine Hepburn on death

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
Elie Wiesel on death

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
J. Robert Oppenheimer on death

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on 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 on death

Man always dies before he is fully born.
Erich Fromm on death

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch on death

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
Marlene Dietrich on death

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.
T. S. Eliot on death

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham on death

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
Elie Wiesel on death

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz on death

Call no man happy till he is dead.
Aeschylus on death

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht on death

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Abu Bakr on death

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
Miguel de Unamuno on death