Quotes About Death

En su lugar, me voy a vivir a Madrid. Que es algo bastante parecido a la muerte.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Death, would that you scorned to take the coward's life, And came only to valour!

God cheats men into living on by hiding how blessed it is to die.

Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.

I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a publisher cared to print such a little book, and at such a price. That confirms what Schopenhauer reveals to us, among other truths: philosophy is a matter of death. A philosopher living and thinking life is a priori suspect in our philosophical culture.

Death is healing, it tells us to forgive, it reminds us that we don't want to die alone.

One thing I do know about death. The "better" the person, the more loving and happy and caring, the less of a gap that person's death makes.

Una cosa sé de la muerte. Cuanto "mejor" es la persona, cuanto más cariñosa, feliz y comprensiva, menor es el vacío que deja su muerte.

No hay ninguna guía para la muerte. Nadie puede decirte qué hacer, qué es lo que te espera

On the plane to Mexico City, I thought about how death shreds time. My ordinary life had vanished.

We get used to seeing the patients ill; even used to them dying. When they do we get upset if we know them. We can't get upset for those we don't know. We have to forget them. We'd all have nervous breakdowns if we didn't.

and God has blessed America to learn that noone is exempt the world is one all fear is one all life all death all one

and i am consumed with love for all of it the everydayness of bravery of hate of fear of tragedy of death and birth and hope

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Therefore death is nothing to us, it matters not one jot, since the nature of the mind is understood to be mortal.

That fear of Acheron be sent packing which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure.

[The people] were given over in troops to disease and death.

When immortal Death has taken mortal life.

Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.

For men know not what the nature of the soul is; whether it is engendered with us, or whether, on the contrary, it is infused into us at our birth, whether it perishes with us, dissolved by death, or whether it haunts the gloomy shades and vast pools of Orcus.