Quotes About Death

Death is an ill; 'tis thus the Gods decide: / For had death been a boon, the Gods had died.

Oh son, watch the illusory spectacle! All birth and death is projected by delusion, not existing in reality. I am beyond coming and going.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

It was the cowards who died many times before their death.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

It becomes an emperor to die standing (i.e., "in harness"). [Lat., Decet imperatorem statem mori.]

Kill me, or you are a murderer.

Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Death means you are in the third person.

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Sunk in the grass of an empty lot on a spring Saturday, I split the stems of milkweed and thought about ants and peach pits and death and where the world went when I closed my eyes.

Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a profusion of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.

And death climbs up the steps one by one.

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

What is death but a traversing of eternities and a crossing of cosmic oceans?

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

Death Makes Angels of us all.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.