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Forty Quotes about Facing Death (Best Offer)
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This 1000-word article includes quotes about the inevitability of death and how to facing death. It includes quotes from Aeschylus, Woody Allen, Isaac Asimov, Buddha, Willa Cather, Winston Churchill, Plato, Henry David Thoreau, and many more.
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People may not be able to choose if they want to die, but they can choose how they face it. Throughout time, there have been varying ways to philosophize this concept. Here are some quotations about how about the inevitability of death and how to face it.
Death is a better, milder fate than tyranny.
Aeschylus
There’s nothing certain in a man’s life except this: That he must lose it.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen
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
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
Isaac Asimov
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Antonin Artaud
I know one day I’ll turn the corner and I won’t be ready for it.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Death is the surest calculation that can be made.
Ludwig Büchner, Force, and Matter
This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.
Buddha
If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George Burns
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
I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.
Albert Camus
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