Death Quotes

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Without death there would be very little progress.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.

When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.

These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.

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.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.

Death is more certain than the morrow, than night following day, than winter following summer. Why is it then that we prepare for the night and for the winter time, but do not prepare for death. We must prepare for death. But there is only one way to prepare for death - and that is to live well.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.