Quotes About Death

Death is just a door that only love can come and go through.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

ETERNITY is a long time. FIRE is a terrible thing. The thought of eternal punishment, with fire, not only causes man to fear death, it often causes him to lose his reason. It destroys interest in life and makes happiness impossible.

The fear of POVERTY The fear of CRITICISM The fear of ILL HEALTH The fear of LOSS OF LOVE OF SOMEONE The fear of OLD AGE The fear of DEATH

The wages of sin is death!

Where the ordinary mind sees disaster and confusion, the mind of the philosopher sees the most perfect sequence of cause and effect, and where the materialist sees nothing but endless death, the mystic sees pulsating and eternal life.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long. Whenever there is asymmetry in outcomes, the average survival has nothing to do with the median survival.

There is no intermediate state between ice and water but there is one between life and death: employment.

One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." Statistics stay silent in us.

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. Patrocles does not strike us as a hero because of his accomplishments (he was rapidly killed) but because he preferred to die than see Achilles sulking into inaction. Clearly, the epic poets understood invisible histories. Also later thinkers and poets had more elaborate methods for dealing with randomness, as we will see with stoicism.

I suspect that they put Socrates to death because there is something terribly unattractive, alienating, and nonhuman in thinking with too much clarity.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death.

If you want to accelerate someone's death, give him a personal doctor. I don't mean provide him with a bad doctor: just pay for him to choose his own. Any doctor will do. This may be the only possible way to murder someone while staying squarely within the law. We can see from the tonsillectomy story that access to data increases intervention, causing us to behave like the neurotic fellow.

In a natural environment, people die without aging—or after a very short period of aging.

the iatrogenics is in the patient, not in the treatment. If the patient is close to death, all speculative treatments should be encouraged—no holds barred. Conversely, if the patient is near healthy, then Mother Nature should be the doctor.

Atheism or materialism means treating the dead as if they were unborn, I won't.

Scorn of the abstract: favoring contextualized thinking over more abstract, though more relevant, matters. "The death of one child is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic.

Remember that Socrates was put to death because he would not compromise his standards.

Median means roughly that 50% of the people die before eight months and 50% survive longer than eight months. But those who survive would live considerably longer, generally going about life just like a regular person and fulfilling the average 73.4 or so years predicted by insurance mortality tables. There is asymmetry. Those who die do so very early in the game, while those who live go on living very long.

lack of vigilance is not the cause of the death of a mafia don; the cause of death is making enemies, and the cure is making friends.

since the older we get, the less likely we are to live.

Socrates was put to death because he disrupted something that, in the eyes of the Athenian establishment, was working just fine.