Quotes About Death

None believes in his own death. In the unconscious everyone is convinced of his own immortality.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

Death is the protector of life and life is the process of death.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail... The wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

There are four types of oceans. Passions are the ocean of sins, the self (nafs) is the ocean of lust, death is the ocean of life, and the grave is the ocean of distress

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.

For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.

The death of the self lies in the life of the heart

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Do not desire a long life or an early death

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

There is no wisdom but in death

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death".

Virtue is the only friend which follows us even beyond the grave. Everything else ends with death.