Quotes About Death

Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

Life is weaker than Death and Death is weaker than Truth.

Only the dead know the truth.

Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth.

The fishhook catches the fish; the truth catches the lie; the death catches the life; the love catches the hate!

A Latin phrase says: De mortuis nil nisi bonum, Speak no ill of the dead. But it is better to say this way: Speak the truth of the living and speak the truth of the dead!

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

To truth there is no error. To life there is no death.

The truth is that I've got all my net worth safely in Berkshire and I will never sell a share so there is no one more concerned about what happens after my death than I am.

Death cancels everything but truth; and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization.

You are going to die like a dog for no good reason

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs

Death gives people the courage to be honest, sometimes for the first time in their lives.

For some it is harder to wake up to the truth of life than it is to fall into the sleep of death

You can't lie to a dead person.They already know the truth.

Lunatics are, unfortunately, rarely stupid.

People those enjoy life never thought about death and those thought about death never enjoy life.

Every moment is important, like the moment that takes away your life.

When a worrier acts bravery and face death in a battle, rest assured that he/she is knows that the case fought for has its values.