Quotes on Death

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

I have only one curiosity left: death.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of 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.

Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.

Optimists and pessimists die the exact same death, but they live very different lives!

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and lie still, And she the rejoicer of the heart is beneath them: A wet leaf that clings to the threshold.

Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.

When I die I'm going to dance first in all the galaxies...I'm gonna play and dance and sing.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.

It was not until after the coming of Christ that time and humans could breathe freely. It was not until after him that people began to live toward the future. Humans do not die in a ditch like a dog-but at home in history, while the work toward the conquest of death is in full swing; they die sharing in this work.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body.