Quotes About Death

Will you not allow that I have as much of the spirit of prophecy in me as the swans? For they, when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever, rejoicing in the thought that they are going to the god they serve.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better... In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like. This is the justice of heaven.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

Fíjate, cuando uno de los personajes del libro muere de un disparo, un hilo de su sangre recorre todo el pueblo hasta llegar a donde se encuentra la madre del muerto. Todo es así, en el límite de lo sublime o de lo cursi. Como el bolero

It is best not to be born or to die as soon as possible.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

The great god Pan is dead.

They died,but not as lavish as their blood, Or thinking death itself was simply good; Their wishes neither were to live nor die, But to do both alike commendably.

For humans it is not at all possible to have the best thing of all or to have any share of the best nature—since the best thing for all men and women is not to be born. But the second best thing after this and the first available to mortals, is to die as soon as possible after being born." It is clear that he said this because the way that exists in death is better than the one in life.

I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

To be mortal means to die, and both Eve and Pandora bring death into the world. This is a curious rerversal of the fact that women bring life into the world, but it says something about the meaning of 'woman' within a religion dominated by male gods.

A dead man cannot bite.

And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?

Ill is it when good folk die.' 'Why, if they were good you need not mourn for them,' said Skafloc glibly, 'for they are safe from this world's sorrows, come home to Him above. I should think, in truth, that only the sound of your weeping could trouble their bliss.

But a universal state is not a new beginning for a civilization, it's the start of the death, and it has to follow the same course over and over through history, like a kind of slow but terminal sickness.

By oak and ash and springtime-whitened thorn, through ages gone and ages to be born, by earth below, by air arising higher, by ringing waters, and by living fire, by life and death, I charge that ye say true if ye do now give faith for faith.

Il mondo è solo carne che si va putrefacendo su un teschio- mormorò la troll

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

for a moment infinitesimal and infinite, men, women, child, ship, and death were one. It

I think you look on death as your friend,' she murmured. 'It is a strange friend for a young man to have.' 'The only faithful friend in all the world,' he said bitterly. 'Death is the only one sure to be at your side.

Kalau mati, dengan berani; kalau hidup, dengan berani. Kalau keberanian tidak ada, itulah sebabnya setiap bangsa asing bisa jajah kita.