Death Quotes

Few things in life are certain except death and being taxed.

The early years of my life were very, very traumatic. It was scary, because any child knew that death was sort of lurking around Europe as far as Jews were concerned.

Death is the road to awe.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.

The dead don't bother with particulars.

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

I think we are at a new evolutionary stage. We evolved in tight-knit tribes in which we faced death if we didn't have the support of the rest of the tribe.

Death cannot alter facts - only feelings.

What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

I saw my own blood and I thought, how could I live in a world where this exists- where love can become death?

If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

We knew nothing of loss. Nobody has taught us about pain. Until that moment, death had just amounted to a scary sound.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

It is natural to die as to be born.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.

To judge of the real importance of the individual, we should think of the effect his death would produce.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be prepared to demand it. For other peoples have wanted peace, and the peace they received was the peace of death.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.

There were some who said that a man at the point of death was more free than all others, because death breaks every bond, and over the dead the united world has no power.

Death is the vast perhaps.

My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Hopefully I never get hit with that stigma of being a novelty act. Since [my father] death in 1998 I've been doing a program called Sinatra Sings Sinatra.

Death had no lips, but it was smiling

I think its really important for your mental health to think about the big questions, to discuss them and open your mind, in order to prepare you for both life and death.

To be bored to death is a form of suicide.

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

The secret of love is acceptance, acceptance of our finite self, of our life, our birth ... our death.

We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

Every moment gives birth to the next moment and influences it. Getting out of that chain of perpetual being is getting off the wheel of birth and death. That is enlightenment.

Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to enter into the world of advanced meditation.