Death Quotes

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."

"For children preserve the fame of a man after his death."

"Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it."

"A weak soul does not have the endurance to resist the flesh for very long. It grows heavy, becomes flesh itself, and the contest ends. But among responsible men, men who keep their eyes riveted day and night upon the Supreme Duty, the conflict between flesh and spirit breaks out mercilessly and may last until death."

"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

"Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life."

"No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."

"Disease generally begins that equality which death completes."

"At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple."

"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."

"Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death."

"I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two."

"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not."

"Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges."

"Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters."

"And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!"

"Every human being is under construction from conception to death."

"For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point."

"When we grow older and begin to realize that our omnipotence is really not so omnipotent, that our strongest wishes are not powerful enough to make the impossible possible, the fear that we have contributed to the death of a loved one diminishes - and with it, the guilt."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."