Quotes About Death

It is only in love and murder that we still remain sincere.

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

in the union of nature, loyalty is no dream! We part only to be more intimately at one, more divinely at peace with all, with each other. We die so as to live.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there.

Jesus died too soon. He would have repudiated His doctrine if He had lived to my age.

There was really only one Christian, and he died on the cross.

When Zarathustra was alone… he said to his heart: "Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!"

Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

industry and utility are the angels of death who, with fiery swords, prevent man's return to Paradise.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

The last Christian died on the cross.

The living is a species of the dead and not a very attractive one.

You won't understand life and death until you're ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist.

You can get hooked on afterlife ideas just like a drug. The reason to avoid ideas about life after death isn't because they couldn't possibly be true. Maybe they could. How would I know? It's because ideas like that promote a kind of dreamy fantasy state that distracts us from seeing what our life is right now. "The question doesn't fit the case." Look at your life as it is right now and live it, right now.

It's easy to become a Buddha. Don't be a jerk. Don't get hung up on life and death. Have compassion for everybody and everything. Show some respect to people who deserve it and kindness to people who need it. Don't get all caught up in hating stuff or in wanting stuff. Don't think too much. Don't worry. That's what we call being a Buddha. You don't need anything else.

When you're alive there's nothing but life. When you die there's nothing but death. So when life comes, be alive. When death comes, die. You don't need to dodge either one, and you don't need to long for either one.

One of the problems for contemporary Western people is that Buddha's attitude toward rebirth is entirely different from ours. We want to live forever. Buddha and his followers did not. To him and to the audience he spoke to, rebirth was not a good thing.

he was less fearful around the dead than the living...It was that he and the dead shared the same secret, which was that the fearful illusion of mortality - and immortality, as well - is lifted like a veil to reveal something simpler and more profound, without fear. Only the dead see one another, and themselves, for what they truly were, or are. The terrifying idea of time did not apply at all.

While our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all.

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Death isn't beautiful. Near-death however, is gorgeous.