Quotes about Death

“A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.”

“Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.”

“Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity.”

“An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.”

“God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.”

“Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.”

“Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.”

“When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.”

“Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.”

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.”

“In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.”

“Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.”

“It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.”

“Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.”

“I don't know if I believe in life after death so much as I believe that there is something out there.”

“It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.”

“Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.”

“It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.”

“Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.”

“Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.”