Quotes About Death

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

Science has never sought to ally herself with civil power. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torment, least of all death, for the purpose of promoting her ideas.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

But it is not given to every electrician to die in so glorious a manner as the justly envied Richmann.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

BODY-SNATCHER, n. A robber of grave-worms. One who supplies the young physicians with that with which the old physicians have supplied the undertaker.

APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider

Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.

The Governor was strong upon The Regulation Act: The Doctor said that Death was but A scientific fact: And twice a day the Chaplain called, And left a little tract.

Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

It extols death with the luminescent brilliance of a dying star. It is Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream. The mantis shrimp is the harbinger of blood-soaked rainbows.

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.