Quotes About Death

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Neither in war nor yet at law ought any man to use every way of escaping death. For often in battle there is no doubt that if a man will throw away his arms, and fall on his knees before his pursuers, he may escape death; and in other dangers there are other ways of escaping death, if a man is willing to say and do anything. The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.

It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen of the jury; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

It is only in death that we are truly cured of the 'sickness' of life.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better only god knows.

We approach truth only inasmuch as we depart from life. For what do we, who love truth, strive after in life? To free ourselves from the body, and from all the evil that is caused by the life of the body! If so, then how can we fail to be glad when death comes to us? The wise man seeks death all his life and therefore death is not terrible to him.

a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods.

W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the approach of death and escapes unharmed and indestructible... [I]t is as certain as anything can be... that soul is immortal and imperishable, and that our souls will really exist in the next world.

And now we go, you to your lives, and I to death, and which of us goes to the better only God knows

I]f everything that has some share of life were to die, and if after death the dead remained in that form and did not come to life again, would it not be quite inevitable that in the end everything should be dead and nothing alive?... [W]hat possible means could prevent their number from being exhausted by death?

Now it is time that we are going, I to die and you to live; but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but God

Craindre la mort, Athéniens, ce n'est autre chose que se croire sage sans l'être, car c'est croire connaître ce que l'on ne connaît point.

Temer la muerte no es otra cosa que creer ser sabio sin serlo, pues es creer que uno sabe lo que no sabe.

Pentru a înv??a s? tr?iasc? bine, cineva trebuie mai întâi s? înve?e s? moar? bine

Pero no es difícil, varones, huir de la muerte; muy más difícil es huir de la maldad, que corre más veloz que la muerte. Yo ahora, por tardo y por viejo, seguramente, he sido cogido por lo más lento, mientras que mis acusadores, por hábiles y por vivos, han sido cogidos por lo más veloz: por la maldad

La vie est le visage de lumière de l'amour, la mort est à face ténébreuse de la haine.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

This world can seem marvelously convincing until death collapses the illusion and evicts us from our hiding place.

Peaceful death is really an essential human right, more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is a right on which, all religious traditions tell us, a great deal depends for the well-being and spiritual future of the dying person. There

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. MONTAIGNE