Quotes About Death

Don't say gone, say dead —that's what they are.

There was nothing in Holly Short's future but death. Her current future. But the future could be changed.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do they turn? What haven of safety do they make for? Why, they rush upon the nets! And thus they perish by confounding what they should fear with that wherein no danger lies. . . . Not death or pain is to be feared, but the fear of death or pain. Well said the poet therefore:— Death has no terror; only a Death of shame!

I must die; so must I die groaning too?

Death is not dreadful or else it would have appeared dreadful to Socrates.

I want to die, even though I don't have to.

Lucky is the man who dies at work.

People are strange, they neither wish to live nor die.

The fear of death stems from the view that it is fearful.

Yes, but what good will all this do me when a child of mine dies, or if my brother, or I myself, have to die or be tortured?' [19] Nothing. Because that's not why you came, not why you took your seat in front of me, not the reason you sometimes sacrificed sleep to study by lamplight.

No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it – or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

Apropos of which, Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

Put away the fear of death, and however much thunder and lightning you have to face, you will find the mind capable of remaining calm and composed regardless.

death is nothing to fear in itself, or Socrates would have run from it.

No, I cannot escape death, [10] but at least I can escape the fear of it – or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off – see, it doesn't bite.

such is Death, a greater change, from what now is, not to what is not, but to what is not now. Shall I then no longer be? Not so; thou wilt be; but something different, of which the World now hath need. For thou too wert born not when thou chosest, but when the World had need of thee.

Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

Earnestness is the path of immortality (Nirvâna), thoughtlessness the path of death. Those

Kreb platzt in den Laden eines Leinenhändlers herein. Vier Taschentücher, schnell, ich blute, ich schwitze, ich weine, ich huste. Hierher bitte, lieber Herr, lassen Sie mich Ihnen lieber unsere Auswahl an Leichentüchern zeigen.

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.

An easygoing person is probably more accessible to a realization of eternity—the endless flow of life and death—than one who takes his prospects and duties overseriously. It is the overserious who are truly frivolous.