Explore Quotes on Death

Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.