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Short Death Quotes

“Do not go gentle into that good night.”

“To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”

“He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.”

“A well-spent day brings happy sleep.”

“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.”

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.”

“We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.”

“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”