Explore Quotes on Death

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

IMPALE, v.t. In popular usage, to pierce with any weapon which remains fixed in the wound . . . . properly, to put to death by thrusting an upright sharp stake into the body, the victim being left in a sitting position.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

Well-observed facts, though brought to light by passing theories, will never die; they are the material on which alone the house of science will at last be built.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.