Quotes on Death

Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream.

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.