Quotes on Death

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.

You see, it's actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that's where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul.

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.

Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Growing up in Westboro, there was a culture of celebrating death and tragedy... a very calloused way of seeing other people's pain. After I left, it took me a while to be able to really empathize with what it must have been like for the loved ones of people whose funerals we protested.

If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.

It is one of the sternest judgments confronting a human being after death that insofar as he is himself evil, he can see only what resembles himself because he can reproduce in his own being only the physiognomy of other evil people.