Quotes About Death

I put on a martyred expression - like this - as if I was bored to death with every luxury under the sun. I had the time of my life.

Es gibt im Leben nur drei große Ereignisse: den Tod, die Berühmtheit oder die Liebe. Mein lieber blauer Leutnant, welches von den dreien wird mir wohl als erstes auf den Kopf oder ins Herz fallen?

There is no premature death for a man utterly dedicated to conquest, solitude and vain flight: he is always at an age to die

The room was cold as the grave.

Time of death,' said Morse. 'Come on!

It is strange to relate (for a man in his profession) that in addition to incurable acrophobia, arachnophobia, myophobia, and ornithophobia, Morse also suffered from necrophobia; and had he known what awaited him now, it is doubtful whether he would have dared to view the horridly disfigured corpse at all.

As a boy, he had been moved by those words of the dying Socrates, suggesting that if death were just one long, unbroken, dreamless sleep, then a greater boon could hardly be bestowed upon mankind.

She wasted and grew so thin that she no longer was a little girl, but the shadow of a little girl. The flame of her life flickered so faintly that it appeared sufficient to blow at it to extinguish it. Stas understood that death did not have to wait for a third attack to take her and he expected it any day or any hour.

He who knew how to live should know how to die.

The immortals are mortal, the mortals immortal, each living in the other's death and dying in the other's life.

For when is death not within ourselves?… Living and dead are the same, and so are awake and asleep, young and old.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

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Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.

A drunk man, staggering and mindless, must be led home by his son, so wet is his psyche... Water brings death to the psyche, as earth brings death to water... The psyche lusts to be wet.

Yearning hurts, and what release may come of it feels much like death.

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others' death and dying the others' life

Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living the others' death, being dead in the others' life.

The bow (????) is called life (????) but its work is death.

The luckiest men die worthwhile deaths

Older men declare war. But its the youth who must fight and die!

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Ethics has to recognize the truth, recognized in unethical thought, that egoism comes before altruism. The acts required for continued self-preservation, including the enjoyment of benefits achieved by such acts, are the first requisites to universal welfare. Unless each duly cares for himself, his care for all others is ended by death; and if each thus dies, there remain no others to be cared for.

The heaven that he won for us by his atoning death presupposes a hell from which he delivered us. The eternal life he imparted to us presupposes an eternal death from which he saved us.