Quotes on Death

Life and death appear more certainly ours than whatsoever else; and yet hardly can that be called ours, which comes without our knowledge, and goes without it.

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die.

When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

I've just read that I am dead. Don't forget to delete me from your list of subscribers.

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.

Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that here we lie, obedient to their commands.

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.