quotations about death
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
JOSEPH ADDISON
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Cato
God, give us each our own death,
the dying that proceeds
from each of our lives.
RAINER MARIA RILKE
The Book of Hours
Death commences too early--almost before you're half acquainted with life--you meet the other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
GRENVILLE KLEISER
Dictionary of Proverbs
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!
IRVIN D. YALOM
When Nietzsche Wept
Now can it be men die and carry thence no memory of death, only this curious lightness of the hands, only this curious darkness of the mind, only to be still changeless with the winters passing; not gray, not lined, not stricken down, but stamped forever on the moving air, and echo and an image?
MAXWELL ANDERSON
High Tor
There is great reason to hope that death is good; for one of two things -- either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if you suppose that there is no consciousness, but a sleep like the sleep of him who is undisturbed by the sight of dreams, death will be an unspeakable gain. For if a person were to select the night in which his sleep was undisturbed even by dreams, and were to compare with this the other days and nights of his life, and then were to tell us how many days and nights he had passed in the course of his life better and more pleasantly than this one, I think that any man ... even the great king will not find many such days or nights, when compared with the others. Now if death is like this, I say that to die is gain; for eternity is then only a single night. But if death is the journey to another place, and there, as men say, all the dead are, what good, O my friends and judges, can be greater than this?
PLATO
The Apology
For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.
WILLIAM BATCHELDER GREENE
Socialistic
She is death,
All of the time.
She is death,
All of the days.
She is death,
And I can't leave
From her trap.
THE FLAMING LIPS
"She Is Death", Hear It Is
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
A Treatise on Parents and Children
Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
STEVE JOBS
Commencement address at Stanford University, Jun. 12, 2005
The attitude of mourning is a faithless attitude, an ignorant attitude. The more we know, the more fully we shall trust, for we shall feel with utter certainty that we and our dead are alike in the hands of perfect Power and perfect Wisdom, directed by perfect Love.
C. W. LEADBEATER
The Science of the Sacraments
I think ... that I when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I lived, the breath I breathed.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Other Wind
Dead man, dead man
When will you arise?
Cobwebs in your mind
Dust upon your eyes
BOB DYLAN
"Dead Man, Dead Man"
When death occurs, death as you know it, the universe embraces you and takes you to its heart.
ROSEMARY ALTEA
A Matter of Life and Death
All are stoics in the grave.
ANACREON
Ode IV, Odes
The cure for death is not being born.
K. J. PARKER
Evil for Evil