Quotations About Death II

God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.


All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain


I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929


There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. ~Author Unknown


All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck


To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler



The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain


We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ~David Sarnoff


Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. ~Francis Bacon, "Of Death"


If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun. ~From the television show Roseanne


Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ~Henry Van Dyke


He who doesn't fear death dies only once. ~Giovanni Falcone


People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. ~Marcel Proust


Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality
~Emily Dickinson


A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. ~Percival Arland Ussher


The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu


'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ~Lord Byron


Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945


While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~Leonardo Da Vinci


Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ~Alice Walker


I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. ~Willa Cather


Death is a distant rumor to the young. ~Andrew A. Rooney


A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain


There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ~Kenneth Patchen


If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. ~Charles Sanders Peirce