Quotes About Death

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death.

This is your life - you must die by yourself, so for heaven's sake, live for yourself and no one else. . . .

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

The thought that really crushes us is the thought of the futility of life of which death is the visible manifestation.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

I have no idea about what death is, but because I have been in association with it so intimately, I have a much greater sense of the value of life and of what life can be.

If this is death, it is easier than life.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead.

Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live and what will amaze you even more, throughout life you must learn to die. Seneca (Roman philosopher)

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death be like autumn leaves. Rabindranath Tagore What a simple thing death is, just as simple as the falling of an autumn leaf.

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.