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Death And Dying Quotes

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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

Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 13, 1595.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

Sir Edwin Arnold (1893). “The Light of the World, Or, The Great Consummation”

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.263, Hamilton Books

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.147, Random House