Quotes about Death

“We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.”

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”

“Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.”

“You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.”

“Science without conscience is the death of the soul.”

“I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.”

“I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?”

“A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.”

“Death is not painful. It is the most beautiful experience you will have.”

“The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'”

“I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.”

“If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.”

“Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”

“Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.”

“When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.”

“My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.”

“Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.”

“No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.”

“People ask me if I have some kind of death wish, to keep saying the things I do. The answer is no: I would like to keep living. However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.”

“Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.”