Quotes About Death

Zombies sort of typify this ambiguity, that they're not dead and not alive.

Purposefully exposing young people to increased risks of major brain problems - even death - for sport is surely even more ethically complicated than sending young people into this same neurological danger zone as soldiers.

I have worked in 60 countries, covered wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and spent much of 2014 living inside West Africa's Ebola zone, a place gripped by fear and death.

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

I've always told Bindi, 'If anything ever happened to me, I will always watch over you from Heaven.' But she always understood because, living at a zoo, animals die; she's seen death. She knows what death is.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

There is no armor against fate; death lays his icy hands on kings.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead.

And he (King David) died in a good old age, full of days, riches and honour.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young.

It is not death that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be all right.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

A good life fears not life, nor death.

He who fears death cannot enjoy life.

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

In bed we laugh, in bed we cry; And born in bed, in bed we die; The near approach a bed may show Of human bliss to human woe.

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.