Quotes About Death

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Peace of heart - without it, no good can make us happy. With it, every trial, even the approach of death, can be borne.

Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts. Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

See in what peace a Christian can die.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.

I do not doubt but that genuine piety is the spring of peace of mind; it enables us to bear the sorrows of life, and lessens the pangs of death: the same cannot be said of hypocrisy.

Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got.

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies & played the violin: but one of the twins died, & the other has eaten the fiddle — so all is peace.

I'm simultaneously terrified of the thought of existing forever and not existing at all. Wherein is my peace?

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.

War doesn't make boys men, it makes men dead.