Quotes about Death

“I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.”

“If we must die, we die defending our rights.”

“It is true that you can say that death is natural, but it is also natural to fight death. But if you stand up and say this is a big problem, we should do something about this, that makes people very uncomfortable, because they've made their peace with death.”

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.”

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.”

“For me, habit is just a synonym for death.”

“Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.”

“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”

“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

“While thousands of Americans die alone, Donald touts stock market gains. As my father lay dying alone, Donald went to the movies. If he can in any way profit from your death, he'll facilitate it, and then he'll ignore the fact that you died.”

“I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.”

“As one whose husband and mother-in-law have died the victims of murder and assassination, I stand firmly and unequivocally opposed to the death penalty for those convicted of capital offenses... An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation.”

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

“The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.”

“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”

“That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.”

“I think death is just a transition to another state of consciousness.”

“Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.”

“Every human being is under construction from conception to death.”

“It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.”

“To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.”