Quotes About Death

And at the end, when Scott himself lay dying, he wrote to Mrs. Wilson: "I can do no more to comfort you, than to tell you that he died as he lived, a brave, true man—the best of comrades and staunchest of friends.

Men do not fear death, they fear the pain of dying.

Around, around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo.

We're ever making plans for life, But seldom plans for death, Though death we know must come to us, And life is but a breath.

Just as you cannot wave your hands and reappear in your simple life before coming here, so you cannot merely clap them to wake up the dead from their troubles.

The hours must be endured and those who cannot do so in life will most surely do so in death. You say you cannot face them? Life's joys and pains both? You shall find them waiting for you, a world of ignored moments there to be explored. Then shall you know how long an hour can be, shall feel the awful depth and restlessness of even a single day, and all the days you fled from life while you were alive.

Creation is quite impressionable. Everyone leaves a trail of their actions. And everyone, however wise, however powerful, however immortal, makes mistakes. All it requires is the patience to wait for them. And you'll find no one, in all Creation, quite so patient as Death.

If even one of you takes so much as a single shot at that crow", he told them, his tone matter-of-fact, "then after you are dead, I will summon your spirits to provide me with the names of your siblings, your parents, and your children. And I will animate your corpses to murder them with your own hands".

And yet we spend so much time and effort and energy on those résumé entries—entries that lose all significance as soon as our heart stops beating.

Montaigne: "To practice death is to practice freedom.71 A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave." Being a slave to our job and our status in the world makes it much harder to put our day behind us and surrender to sleep.

To truly redefine success we need to redefine our relationship with death.

we can only achieve true wisdom when our soul is liberated from our bodies by death.

the ideas and emotions people carry with them through life often determine the quality of their death.

Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?

Porque tudo que é vivo morre.

Matar padre dá um azar danado. Sobretudo para o padre.

É verdade, o cachorro morreu. Cumpriu sua sentença e encontrou-se com o único mal irremediável, aquilo que é a marca do nosso estranho destino sobre a Terra, aquele fato sem explicação que iguala tudo o que é vivo num só rebanho de condenados, porque tudo que é vivo morre.

Gerardo; People can die from an excessive dose of the truth, you know.

Death comes for us. You may get ten minutes on this earth or you may get eighty years but nobody gets out alive.

Huset der oppe, sa jeg og pekte – er dødens hus, Arnardo.

Cherry blossoms are more beautiful when the blood of the dead stains the flowers from grass below.

Who knows whether living is dying, and breathingIs eating, and sleeping is a wool blanket?

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.