Explore Quotes on Death

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.