Quotes on Death

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

This is the last of earth! I am content.

Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb.

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole eternity.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

I am not afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths?

But, however many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.

Science says: 'We must live,' and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: 'We must die,' and seeks how to make us die well.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

With every friend I love who has been taken into the brown bosom of the earth a part of me has been buried there; but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

[In] death at least there would be one profit; it would no longer be necessary to eat, to drink, to pay taxes, or to [offend] others; and as a man lies in his grave not one year, but hundreds and thousands of years, the profit was enormous. The life of man was, in short, a loss, and only his death a profit.

Afraid of death? Not at all. Be a great relief. Then I wouldn't have to talk to you.