Death Quotes

Mobilizing the love of life is the only force that can defeat the love for the dead.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

[On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

Death laid its eggs in the wound

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

A love that dies has never lived.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself.

Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate and focus on your third eye, you will see a circle of light.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Not even death can wipe out our good deeds

Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

Death keepes no Calender.

What do we say to the Lord of Death?" "Not today.

I feel so much the continual death of everything and everybody, and have so learned to reconcile myself to it, that the final and official end loses most of its impressiveness.

What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder?

A mild attack of apoplexy may be called death's retaining fee.

If I'm ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I'm not suicidal. And I'm a pretty good driver.

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

While denial leads to certainty, it is only the certainty of death. This is true for individuals and also for civilizations.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.

If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.

My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.

Death by hanging... I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

Complete freedom from stress is death

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.