Quotes
Quotes about Death
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?
For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.
Death-the last voyage, the longest and the best.
Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?.
Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.
I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below.
Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.
One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Death came with friendly care; The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
