Quotes About Death

Camus had often told friends that nothing was more scandalous than the death of a child, and nothing more absurd than to die in a car accident.

This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place.

Siempre las flores vigilaron la muerte porque siempre los hombres incomprensiblemente supimos que su existir dormido y gracioso es el que mejor puede acompañar a los que murieron sin ofenderlos con soberbia de vida sin ser más vida que ellos Jorge Luis Borges

Como no me he preocupado de nacer, no me preocupo de morir",

Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. I have always looked on the silence of those who do not react or who indeed applaud as the real death of a woman or man.

Ho guadagnato una vita, un biglietto per la morte, e viaggio ancora. In certi momenti ho creduto d'essere giunto, alla fine del viaggio mi sbagliavo. Erano solo imprevisti del cammino.

La guerra è un infanticidio in massa, rinviato di vent'anni.

C'è spesso, nella mia vita, una sorta di fatalità. E questa fatalità, non noi, ha determinato ciò che doveva accadere. È accaduto troppo in fretta? Può darsi. Ma le cose importanti come nascere amare e morire non guardano il tempo dell'orologio, mio caro Peer Gynt.

What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

Religion explains how it is possible to relate to the dead who still live. It says little about how ordinary people should relate to the living who are dead.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

Old: Give me liberty or give me death. - New: Give me liberty or give me debt.

You resent death. You regret death. But as for your own life, you know perfectly well that no one can threaten it at all. Death is something that happens to someone else.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again.

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just how much sadness my death will cause you. Undoubtedly you will weep when you learn the news--apart, of course, from such ornamental sentimentality as you may indulge in--but if you will please try to think of my joy at being liberated completely from the suffering of living and this hateful life itself, I believe that your sorrow will gradually dissolve.

I go about saying how pained and tormented, how lonely and sad I feel, but what do I really mean by that? If I were to speak the truth, I would die.

She lay down beside me, Towards dawn she pronounced for the first time the word "death." She too seemed to be weary beyond endurance of the task of being a human being; and when I reflected on my dread of the world and its bothersomeness, on money, the movement, women, my studies, it seemed impossible that I could go on living. I consented easily to her proposal.

Any man who criticizes my suicide and passes judgment on me with an expression of superiority, declaring (without offering the least help) that I should have gone on living my full complement of days, is assuredly a prodigy among men quite capable of tranquilly urging the Emperor to open a fruit shop.