Quotes on Death

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.

Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.

When you die and go to heaven our maker is not going to ask, 'why didn't you discover the cure for such and such? why didn't you become the Messiah?' The only question we will be asked in that precious moment is 'why didn't you become you?'

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue_x000D_ _x000D_ That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold_x000D_ _x000D_ Which Milton held.

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we_x000D_ _x000D_ should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

If they do kill me, I shall never die another death.

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.