Quotes About Death

O Merlin, said Arthur, Here hadst thou been slain for all thy crafts had I not been. Nay, said Merlin, Not so, for I could save myself an I would; and thou art more near thy death than I am, for thou goest to the deathward, an God be not thy friend.

come he slow or come he fast it is but death that comes at last

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.

Sir Richard Glendale lifted the fatal paper, read it, and saying, 'Now all is indeed over,' handed it to Maxwell, who said aloud, 'Black Colin Campbell...

An unforeseen future nestled somewhere in time. Unsuspecting victims no warnings, no signs. Judgment day the second coming arrives. Before you see the light you must die.

Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch; Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions. If you have got to think about something— Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death . .

The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present. CHUANG TZU

As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain in this earthly existence. Knowing that I cannot escape it, I see no point in worrying about it. I tend to think of death as being like changing your clothes when they are old and worn out, rather than as some final end. Yet death is unpredictable: We do not know when or how it will take place. So it is only sensible to take certain precautions before it actually happens.

Death is a mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

Todos mienten, me dije, todos se esfuerzan, todos esconden algo, tal vez lo mismo: el miedo, la impotencia, la soledad, la muerte. En mayor o menor medida, todos han de convivir con eso. Yo también mentía: sonreía, aceptaba y besaba y no hablaba de mis frustraciones. A veces, me derrumbaba o vivía al borde del derrumbamiento. Todos lo hacían.

Call no man happy until he is dead.

count no man happy until he be dead.

Chiapas, he says, is 'a cemetary with no crosses, where people die without even getting a prayer.

count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.

Let every man in mankind's frailty consider his last day; and let none presume on his good fortune until he find Life, at his death, a memory without pain.

Yes it will be a grace if I die. To exist is pain. Life is no desire of mine anymore.

Only a fool could be in love with death.

It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.

What do I care for life when you are dead?

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tasted A bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day, Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once we Have passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen. Death is the end of all. Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylight And be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.

Not to be born surpasses thought and speech. The second best is to have seen the light and then go back quickly whence we came

Never to have been born is best. Everyone knows that, and a close second, once you have appeared in this life, is a quick return, as soon as you can, to where you came from. In our light-headed youth we carry blithe ideas, not knowing what blows await, what hardships are bearing down, closer and closer. Murder, hatred, strife, resentment, and envy are lurking, and then, behind them, bitter old age, powerless, friendless, with evils our only neighbors.

A man's anger can never age and fade away, not until he dies. The dead alone feel no pain.