Quotes on Death

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed.

The birth of science was the death of superstition.

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.

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.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.

What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?

The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.

All human beings are like travelers floating down the eternal river of time, embarking at a certain point and disembarking again at another point in order to make room for others waiting below the river to come aboard.