Quotes About Death

Musonius Rufus writes that the soul is strengthened by first reminding ourselves of the right perspectives and then moulding our actions to this understanding, so that we stop pursuing things that are not truly good and stop avoiding things that only seem bad. In this way, we 'won't welcome pleasure and avoid pain … won't love living and fear death, and … in the case of money, [we] won't honor receiving over giving.

There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

En tanto que haya muerte, habrá esperanza

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

Will the spellbound world die with you" Will the spellbound world die with you where memory hangs on to clean breaths in life, the white shadow of a first love, a voice that struck your heart, the hand you wanted to grab in dreams, and every love that fell in the soul down to the bottom sky? Will your world die with you, the old life you remade in your way? Have the anvils and crucibles of your soul been working for dust and wind?

A coffin striking earth is indisputably something serious." - from "At the Burial of a Friend

Así pues, hombre, quienquiera que seas, mira ese último fin que es tu muerte y el polvo que se adueña de todo hombre que haya nacido de mujer pues así como salió desnudo del vientre de su madre también desnudo volverá a marcharse como vino.

A la vera de la fuente quedó Alvargonzález muerto. Tiene cuatro puñaladas entre el costado y el pecho, por donde la sangre brota, más un hachazo en el cuello.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

Ignacio Abel feels a weariness he doesn't remember having experienced before, all the more evident in the presence of someone younger (but he didn't feel the age difference when he was with Judith; how strange to have lived so long in a state of total unawareness, to have thought himself immune to the years, to weakness, to death)

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

Vengo de morirme, no de haber nacido. De haber nacido, me voy

Saber morir cuesta la vida.

Åžairin dudaklar? bitkin bir tebessümle araland?. "Benim art?k doktora ihtiyac?m yok, oÄŸlum. Bana doÄŸrudan mezarc?y? yollasalar daha iyi ederler." "Öyle söylemeyin, üstat." "Mezarc?l?k iyi bir meslektir, Mario. Ä°nsan felsefe öÄŸrenir.

La relación que caracteriza de una manera más profunda y general el sentido de nuestro ser es la que une la vida con la muerte, porque la limitación de nuestra existencia por la muerte es decisiva para la comprensión y la valoración de la vida.»

In death, Anand teaches us how to live.

One asks him what his ambition is. He replies, "To become immortal and then to die.

She was going to die soon and Gabriel Cionaodh Marcus Mac Braire, somehow, someway, would be the catalyst.

Bir kalbin var." dedi bir iç çekiÅŸle. "Benimki soldu ve öldü.

Back in my own place, the sky burst in upon me from the window and I was reminded of a long-forgotten passage in War and Peace. Napoleon, walking through the battlefield, sees a dying soldier and, holding up the flag of France, declaims: "Do you know, my noble hero, that you have given your life for your country?" "Please! Please!" the soldier cries. "You are blotting out the sky.

Yes! comfortable, warm reader. Men do not fear death, they fear the pain of dying.