Quotes on Death

The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and woman to fill our day; But when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers & Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.

Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?

It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

I’ll never speak to God again.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state.

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.