Quotes on Death

People have been predicting the death of philosophy since the 17th century. When I was a student, people were saying, 'We're in the last days of philosophy.' Then we were told in the '60s it would be replaced by sociology, then by literary criticism.

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man; no society will survive a shortage of women.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

Death is beautiful. It alone gives love its true habitat.

I hope, by God's grace, that I am truly a Christian, not deviating from the faith, and that I would rather suffer the penalty of a terrible death than wish to affirm anything outside of the faith or transgress the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ.