Death Quotes

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

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

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

Without death there would be very little progress.

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

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

Death offers mankind a full view of truth.

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.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

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

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

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.

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

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

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

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.