Quotes About Death

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

Authentic atheism is a blank page; Gnostic atheism hides a text written in invisible ink. The Ãœbermensch is the recourse of a nonconformist atheism. Nietzsche invents a human consolation for the death of God; Gnostic atheism, on the other hand, proclaims the divinity of man.

El máximo error moderno no es anunciar que Dios murió, sino creer que el diablo ha muerto.

No es en el descampado del mundo en donde el hombre muere de frío, es en el palacio de conceptos que el intelecto levanta.

It is indecent, and even obscene, to speak to man of "progress," when every path winds its way up between funerary cypresses.

Leftists and rightists merely argue about who is to have possession of industrial society. The reactionary longs for its death.

A revolutionary discovers the "true spirit of the revolution" only when he stands in front of a revolutionary tribunal sentencing him to death.

To live is modern man's only value. Even the modern hero does not die except in the name of life.

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Paris, a city of gaieties and pleasures, where four-fifths of the inhabitants die of grief.

C'est une belle allégorie, dans la Bible, que cet arbre de la science du bien et du mal qui produit la mort. Cet emblème ne veut-il pas dire que lorsqu'on a pénétré le fond des choses, la pert des illusions amène la mort de l'âme, c'est-à-dire un désintéressement complet sur tout ce qui touches les autres hommes?

We are all basically selfish, driven by fear of death and the hope of personal gain

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.

It would be too much for me to deal with to be sitting up there next to God, Bon Scott, Sid Vicious, and Jimi Hendrix, and hear somebody read my obituary from below: NIKKI SIXX DIED TODAY...FUCKING GOLFING

When you die, every single muscle in your body hurts. Your body has closed down because it thinks it's done, and when it gets rebooted, every inch of you hurts. Plus I'd had the shit beaten out of me with a baseball bat.

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

Well, so that's the prosecutor! He lived and lived, and then died! And they will say in the papers that he died to the regret of his staff and all mankind, a respected citizen, a rare father, a model husband, and they will write a lot more stuff and nonsense about him; they will add, maybe, that he was mourned by widows and orphans; but if one were to investigate the matter thoroughly, it will emerge that he had nothing to him except his bushy eyebrows.

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one.

I really don't know," the old lady brought out hesitatingly, "you see I've never sold the dead before.

They were terrified out of their wits, the devil knows why: they take you for a brigand and a spy. And the prosecutor has died of fright; the funeral is to-morrow. Won't you be there?

What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches he is surely going to die;

Only when he died did they find out, with regret, that the Public Prosecutor had had a soul, although out of modesty he had never flaunted it.

I brought you into this world. It is on me to take it away.

Unos días después de su muerte un ujier del departamento se presentó en su casa para ordenarle que se reincorporara inmediatamente a su puesto de trabajo , pues así lo exigía el jefe. Pero no pudo cumplir su misión y a la vuelta declaró que Akaki Akákievich no aparecería más por allí. «¿Por qué?», le preguntaron. «Porque ha muerto —respondió—. Hace cuatro días que lo enterraron.»