Quotes About Death

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.

Is the sunrise superior just because it goes before the sunset with a day and sunset goes before the sunrise with a night? Could there be day without night and sunrise without sunset, life without death?

Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?

Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.

You will never find the life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man.

I was thirsty, as much as for water as for dying.

When Elvis died, a camera crew went into Jerry's dressing room and he said, 'I'm glad. Now I'll be able to show them who is the King'. He wasn't thinking – he didn't realise that 50 million viewers would hear him say that.

On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill".

Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.

Some people live a nothing life: the most important thing they ever do is die. Thank God for eccentrics! Take Gunner Octavian Neat. He would suddenly appear naked in a barrack room and say, "Does anybody know a good tailor?", or "Gentlemen – I think there's a thief in the battery." He was the bane of the Regiment.

Life is a long agonised illness only curable by death

To feed death with her works is here life's doom.

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

Death is not the end, death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide

The body is dust; the wind speaks through it. Understand, O wise one, who has died. Awareness, conflict and ego have died, but the One who sees does not die.

When the body is filled with ego and selfishness, the cycle of birth and death does not end.

I wanted to live, but saw clearly that I was not living - but rather wrestling with the shadow of death. There was no one to give me life, and I was not able to take it.

And thus the law is indeed good, because it is prohibition of sin, and death is evil because it is the wages of sin; but as wicked men make an evil use not only of evil, but also of good things, so the righteous make a good use not only of good, but also of evil things. Whence it comes to pass that the wicked make an ill use of the law, though the law is good; and that the good die well, though death is an evil.

Of this at least I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time.

Wherefore all these last offices and ceremonies that concern the dead, the careful funeral arrangements, and the equipment of the tomb, and the pomp of obsequies, are rather the solace of the living than the comfort of the dead. If a costly burial does any good to a wicked man, a squalid burial, or none at all, may harm the godly.

That death is not to be judged an evil which is the end of a good life; for death becomes evil only by the retribution which follows it.

Thus the souls of departed saints are not affected by the death which dismisses them from their bodies, because their flesh rests in hope, no matter what indignities it receives after sensation is gone.

And yet there succeeded, not indeed other griefs, yet the causes of other griefs. For whence had that former grief so easily reached my very inmost soul, but that I had poured out my soul upon the dust, in loving one that must die, as if he would never die?