Death & Dying Proverbs & Sayings (297 Proverbs)
- As a child, is a man wrapped in his mother's womb; as an adult, in tradition; comes death, and he is wrapped in earth.
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- Living is not a reward and dying is no crime.
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- He who is afraid of death, loses his life.
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- To change one's habits has a smell of death.
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- There is a remedy for everything; it is called death.
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- Death makes us equal in the grave but not in eternity.
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- One sip of wine is an antidote against death, cupfuls poison life.
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- I have no right to rejoice at the death of my enemy when I do not have eternal life myself.
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- Death is the key that will open a miser's coffers.
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- Hours are Time's shafts, and one comes winged with death.
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