Quotes About Death

While life expectancy may be variable, death expectancy remains unchanged.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

The only completely consistent people are dead.

Love never dies of a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source, it dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds, it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings, but never of natural death. —Anaïs Nin

Just, that we read fiction because it suggests that life has a shape, and we feel . . . consoled, I think he said, by that notion. Consoled to think that life isn't just one damned thing after another. That it has sequence and consequence." She smiled at Edith. "I think it was more or less the idea that fictional narrative made life seem to matter, that it pushed away the meaninglessness of death.

Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.

To be alone, and without gods, this—this it is, is Death," Hölderlin puts into Empedocles's mouth in the play and maybe in this we can trace the first whisper of the gigantic tragedy that Nietzsche would articulate in the death of God.

It was three o'clock in the morning. A time when frail people die.

Reasons for not living: You die anyway. Life is nothing but anguish. There is to much cruelty in the world. Reasons for living: Things might get better.

Hail, Emperor, we who are about to die salute you.

Hail, Caesar, those who are about to die salute thee. -

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He neither feared to die nor refused to live.

If death is the absence of life, then death's death is life.

Sink to the ground holding death's hand oh comrade if you are the father of great repose, if you are all you seem and nothing more, I'm glad that you are here.

People who want to die will live, people who want to live will die.

Science debased to the end of spreading death and of enslaving humanity, or to the end of procuring newer and newer sensations, a life spent in the whirlpool of fleeting pleasures, varied, subtle, and new, and in the worship of the almighty dollar is what most of us tend to call progress. We live more for the body than for the soul. Our body is our soul; our body is our highest Brahman.

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

It was just over thirty years ago that I had the dramatic out-of-body experience that convinced me of the reality of psychic phenomena and launched me on a crusade to show those closed-minded scientists that consciousness could reach beyond the body and that death was not the end. Just a few years of careful experiments changed all that. I found no psychic phenomena - only wishful thinking, self-deception, experimental error and, occasionally, fraud. I became a sceptic.

The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.

Social media reactions to celebrity death have taken on a predictable pattern: an outpouring of shock with expressions of grief, followed by a ghoulish need to know all the details, to see the scene of the death and the family in mourning. Then a post-mortem dissection of all the perceived flaws the celebrity had.