Quotes About Death

You promise?""I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

Millions of people are afraid of the past, the future, old age, insanity and death. But fear is a thought in your mind. This means that you are afraid of your own thoughts.

It is one of God's blessings that we cannot foreknow the hour of our death; for a time fixed, even beyond the possibility of living, would trouble us more than doth this uncertainty.

Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm condemning the future to death so it can match the past.

Grief and constant anxiety kill nearly as many women as men die on the battlefield.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

Fear of death is worse than dying.

Death. An instantaneous state, without past or future. Indispensable for entering eternity.

She'll prophesy your death. She won't say when.

I've seen the future and it's murder.

Jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal.

My uncle's dying wish - he wanted me on his lap. He was in the electric chair.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

Old age is not a joy, but death is not a gain.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

In our daily lives problems are bound to arise. The biggest problems in our lives are the ones that we inevitably have to face, like old age, illness, and death. Trying to avoid our problems or simply not thinking about them may provide temporary rel.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards. Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.