Quotes About Death

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It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

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.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

We're beings toward death, we're … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.

Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention.

Tis true, 'tis certain; man, though dead, retains Part of himself; the immortal mind remains.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

Our failure to see and access the pure joy and radiance of life is owning to a lack of awareness. In any situation there is beauty. Even at the moment of one's death there is beauty.

In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.

Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.

Philosophy has a fine saying for everything - for Death it has an entire set.

If life is a prison, then death is the ultimate freedom.