Death Quotes

"The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street."

"Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away."

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

"Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he."

"Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things."

"Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast."

"Long hair is an unpardonable offence which should be punishable by death."

"A useless life is an early death."

"As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need."

"The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."

"I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul."

"A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death."

"Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we're being taxed to death."

"Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences."

"The thing about death is it's so final, isn't it, really? As far as we know... Nobody has ever come back and told us about it."

"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."

"In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us."

"It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death."

"The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion."

"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life."

"The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt."

"Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak."

"The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'"

"Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives."

"The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns."

"To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death."

"One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death."

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"

"Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever."

"There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."

"The sunlight ranges over the universe, and at incarnation we step out of it into the twilight of the body, and see but dimly during the period of our incarceration; at death we step out of the prison again into the sunlight, and are nearer to the reality."

"Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death."

"There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom."

"Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the destitute would never feel deserted. He was loyal to his father, accomplishing his will even unto death."

"I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case."

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow."

"Failure too is a form of death."

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."

"The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. His death will provoke violent strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and between Iraqis in general and the American occupation forces."

"For a man who has done his natural duty, death is as natural as sleep."

"The valiant never taste of death but once."

"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."

"I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?"

"If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved."

"Death is imposed only on creatures, not their creations, and has therefore always appeared in art in a broken form: as allegory."

"Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other."

"Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh."

"The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death."

"I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary."

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."