I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death..
That is why he appears to us who are deeply life-hypnotized, obsessed about being alive in any way, as life-negating. To us, just to be alive seems t….
On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a….
I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, e….
There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End..
Being dead will be no different from being unborn -- I shall be just as I was in the time of William the Conqueror or the dinosaurs or the trilobites….
I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little b….
Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the cricke….
Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece..
Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young..
Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.].
Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indiff….
There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Yo….
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one..
Tis on the living Envy feeds. She silent grows When, after death, man's honor is his guard. So I, when on the pyre consumed I lie, Shall live, for al….
All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature..
Everybody is afraid of death for the simple reason that we have not tasted of life yet. The man who knows what life is, is never afraid of death; he ….
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was..
What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay..
Upon the great questions of origin, of destiny, of immortality, of . . . other worlds, every honest man must say, 'I do not know.' Upon these questio….
Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters..