Death Quotes:

Men die and they are not happy.

topic: Death, Punishment, Dying

Have you noticed that only death arouses our emotions? How we love thee friends who have just passed away, right? How we admire those master who no longer speak, their mouths full of dirt. We them we are not obligated.

topic: Life, Death, Men

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

topic: Death, Mouths, Dirt

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

topic: Death, Oneself

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

topic: Death, Matter, Obvious

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

topic: Death, Children, Tree, Younger Generation, Not Afraid Of Death

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

topic: Death, Religious, Atheist, Knowledge And Understanding, Spinoza

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

topic: Inspirational, Death, Children, Standpoint, Look At Yourself

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

topic: Life, Death, Men, Meaningless Life, Meaninglessness

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

topic: Death, Done, Want, Prolonging, Artificial Life

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

topic: Love, Life, Death, Afraid Of Death, Someone Dying

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

topic: Death, God, Wisdom, Anti Religious, Intelligence And Education

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Life, Death, Men

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Life, Death, Nature, Conformity And Individuality

I was afraid of the pain of dying and terribly reluctant to leave the world behind because I liked life a lot, even if it had been pretty tough sometimes.

- Alexander Dolgun

topic: Death, Pain, Dying, Reluctant

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

- Alexander Lowen

topic: Death, Hero, Fate

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Death, Rage

Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Death, Dying, Good God, Losing Friends, Lost Friend

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Death takes away the commonplace of life.

source: Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.55

topic: Death, Sorry, House

To have to die is a distinction of which no man is proud.

topic: Death, Life Death

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

topic: Death, Men, Proud

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

topic: Death, Men, Race, Assassination

- Alexander the Great

topic: Death, Acceptance, Political

I am dying with the help of too many physicians.

- Alexander the Great

topic: Funny, Death, Health

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

- Alfred Hitchcock

topic: Funny, Death, Sarcastic, Antagonism

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

- Alfred Kazin

topic: Death, Years, Dying, Binge

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Death, Grieving, Memorial, Sympathy For Loss, Death Condolences

Authority forgets a dying king.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Death, Kings, Dying

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Algernon Charles Swinburne (1868). “Poems and Ballads”, p.84

topic: Death, Sleep, Stronger

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

- Alice Hegan Rice

topic: Death, Use, Folks

It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon; he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.

- Alice Hegan Rice

source: Alice Hegan Rice (2015). “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch”, p.68, University Press of Kentucky

topic: Death, Uncles

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

- Alice James

source: Alice James (1981). “The Death and Letters of Alice James: Selected Correspondence”, Berkeley : University of California Press

topic: Death, Fun, Dying

Nothing is ever certain.

- Alice Sebold

topic: Death, Certain

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

- Alice Thomas Ellis

topic: Death, Past, Thinking, Last Song, Everything Will Be Alright

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

- Alice Walker

topic: Death, Inspirational Life, Believe, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

There are many tired gardeners but I've seldom met old gardeners. I know many elderly gardeners but the majority are young at heart. Gardening simply does not allow one to be mentally old, because too many hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. The one absolute of gardeners is faith. Regardless of how bad past gardens have been, every gardener believes that next year's will be better. It is easy to age when there is nothing to believe in, nothing to hope for, gardeners, however, simply refuse to grow up.

- Allan Armitage

topic: Death, Dream, Growing Up, Inspirational Gardening, Young At Heart

The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be too sad and too obvious. Death prefers to do it piecemeal. The meadow is attacked from several sides at the same time. One of us goes one day; another some time afterwards; you have to stand back and look around you to take in what's missing, to grasp the vast slaughter of your generation...

- Alphonse Daudet

source: "The art of suffering" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2002.

topic: Death, Clever, Fall

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Death, Pain, Grief, Joy And Grief, Inspirational Bereavement

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Death, Fall, Light

At some point, we all have to let go.

- Amanda Crew

topic: Death, Letting Go, Dying

ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude . . .

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

topic: Life, Death, Orphan, Filial

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

topic: Death, Moving, Lines

When among the graves of thy fellows, walk with circumspection; thine own is open at thy feet.

topic: Death, Entertainment, Amusement, Injection

Homicide, /n./ The slaying of one human by another. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he died by one kind or another - the classification is for the advantage of the lawyers.

topic: Death, Feet, Graves, Circumspection

Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

topic: Death, Suicide, Differences, Praiseworthy, Homicide

Epitaph: An inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

topic: Death, Suicide, Grief, Undertaker

Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.

topic: Death, Dying, Virtue, Inscriptions

- Amy Neftzger

topic: Death, Strong, Believe

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.

- Amy Winehouse

topic: Death, Husband, My Husband

And last of all comes death.

- Anacreon

source: "Odes" by Anacreon, L. (XL VIII.), 28,

topic: Death, Lasts

People living deeply have no fear of death.

- Anais Nin

topic: Life, Inspiring, Death, Joy Of Living, Meaningful Death

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

- Anais Nin

topic: Death, Dying, Life Death, Meddling, Backstabbing

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

- Anais Nin

topic: Life, Moving On, Death, Meaningful Death, Postponing

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

- Anaxagoras

source: "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" by Diogenes Laërtius, (Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers), c. 200 A.D..

topic: Death, Suicide, Descent, Hades

The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

- Anaxagoras

topic: Death, Dying, Descent, Hades

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

- Andre Breton

source: "Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939". Book by Georges Bataille, p. 41, 1985.

topic: Death, Real, Believe, Highs And Lows

The power of god has given men the ability to realize that he does not exist.

- Andre Santos

topic: Death, Men, Dying

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

- Andres Segovia

topic: Death, Prayer, Heaven

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

- Andrew Greeley

topic: Death, Two, Disease, Near Death, Incurable Disease

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

- Andrew Jackson

topic: Death, Strong, Sick

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

- Andrew Sachs

topic: Death, Life Death, Someone Dying, Inspirational Grieving, Memorial For Loved One

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

- Andy Rooney

topic: Death, Humor, Rumor, Death And Dying

Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Death, Dying, Details

Our greatest prejudice is against death. It spans age, gender and race. We spend immeasurable amounts of energy fighting an event that will eventually triumph. Though it is noble not to give in easily, the most alive people I've ever met are those who embrace their death. They love, laugh and live more fully.

- Andy Webster

topic: Death, Fighting, Race

In one sense there is no death. The life of a soul on earth lasts beyond departure. You will always feel that life touching yours, that voice speaking to you. He/She lives on in your life and in the lives of all others that knew him/her.

- Angelo Patri

topic: Death, Voice, Soul, Deathless, Departed Soul

You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Death, Heart, Laughing

What do you have in mind - inhumement, entombment, inurnment, interment? Some people lately just prefer in-sarcophogus-ment.

- Anjanette Comer

topic: Death, People, Mind

The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

- Ann Druyan

topic: Death, Husband, Ideas

There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.

- Ann Radcliffe

topic: Death, Children, Dying

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

- Anna Akhmatova

source: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1989). “Selected Poems”, Dufour Editions

topic: Smile, Death

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

- Anna Letitia Barbauld

topic: Friendship, Death, Sweet, Forlorn

It's so unfair that we should die, just because we are born.

- Anna Magnani

topic: Death, Unfair, Born

Do not save your loving speeches For your friends till they are dead; Do not write them on their tombstones, Speak them rather now instead.

- Anna Mickelson

topic: Friendship, Death, Tombstone, My Friendship, Best Friendship

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

- Anna Nicole Smith

topic: Death, Husband, Home

You get angry - death does that.

- Annabella Sciorra

topic: Death, Dying, Doe

The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

- Anne Bradstreet

topic: Death, Spring, Lying, Insensible

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee; If ever wife was happy in a man, Compare with me, ye women, if you can I prize thy love more than whole mines of Gold. Or all the riches that the East doth hold. My love is such that rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold repay, Then while we live, in love let's so persevere That when we live no more, we may live ever.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.8, Courier Corporation

topic: Death, Love Is, Men, Dear Love, Loving Husband

There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.

- Anne Enright

topic: Death, Husband, Kids

Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Death, Suicide, Men

Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Death, Grief, Grieving, Amputation, Parting

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

- Anne Sexton

source: "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

topic: Death, Daughter, Fathers Day, Loss Of A Parent, Father Died

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

- Anne Shropshire

topic: Death, Perspective, Dying, Near Death Experience

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

- Anne Tyler

source: Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

topic: Death, Body, Odd

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

- Anne Tyler

topic: Death, People, World

That's all that death is ... Just a going away into another country ... Only the separation is harder to bear because there can be no letters to bridge the silence.

- Annie Fellows Johnston

source: Annie Fellows Johnston (1912). “Mary Ware's Promised Land”, p.133, Pelican Publishing

topic: Death, Country, Bridges

There are no limits to the amount of love and wisdom one can take to heaven.

- Anthony D. Williams

topic: Death, Heaven, Limits, Love And Wisdom

On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Love, Death, Saying Goodbye, Someone Dying, Burial

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

- Antonin Artaud

source: Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.92, Univ of California Press

topic: Death, Real, Terror

We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.

- Antonin Artaud

topic: Death, Long, One Day

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

- Aphra Behn

source: 1686 The Lucky Chance, act 4.

topic: Death, Gone, Today, Here Today Gone Tomorrow

What once was cuddled must learn to kiss, The cold worm's mouth. That's all the mystery.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Death, Kissing, Mouths

What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

- Archibald MacLeish

topic: Death, Men, Cities, Hiroshima

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Death, Education, Moral Excellence, Philosophy Of Education

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

- Arlo Guthrie

source: Song: Wake Up Dead, Album: Mystic Journey, 1996

topic: Death, Birth

You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.

- Art Carney

source: "Fictional character: Harry". "Harry and Tonto", www.imdb.com. 1974.

topic: Death, Suffering, Dying

The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't come out and those outside don't want to get in.

- Arthur Brisbane

topic: Death, Want, Foolish

I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Death, Home, Practice, Creationist

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Death, Loss, Three, Geisha

When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

- Arthur Guiterman

topic: Death, Dumb, World

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

- Arthur Koestler

topic: Motivational, Death, Motivation, Joy And Sadness, Sadness And Sorrow

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

source: Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

topic: Death, Suicide, Philosophical, Death And Dying, Birth Life And Death

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

topic: Death, Retirement, Philosophical, Jesus Resurrection, Parting

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

topic: Sad, Death, Pain, Inspirational Grief, Death Of A Friend

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

topic: Death, Suicide, Suicidal, Someone Dying, Dying Death

Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

topic: Life, Good Morning, Death, Morning Inspirational, Morning Motivation

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

topic: Death, Loss, Teach, Beach House

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

topic: Death, Believe, Men

- Ashley Montagu

topic: Death, Ideas, Young, Someone Dying, Someone Who Is Dying

Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

- August Wilson

topic: Death, Fastballs

There is a time for everything - a time for being born and a time for coming of age. There is a time for death, too.

- Barbara Bel Geddes

source: Source: www.sporela.com

topic: Death, Dying, Age, Coming Of Age

Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.

- Basil Hume

topic: Death, Love You, Long, Ecstatic Love, Human Love

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.

- Bayard Taylor

source: Bayard Taylor (1867). “The Picture of St. John”, p.168

topic: Death, Ashes, Green

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Death, Men, Good Man

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Death, Wordplay, Wise Words

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

topic: Death, Money, Business

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

topic: Good Morning, Death, Sleep, Life After Death

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

topic: Death, Food, Saws

In the end, living is defined by dying.

topic: Death, Age, Aging

- Bernard Beckett

topic: Death, Dying, Ends

Death is but an instant, life a long torment.

- Bernard-Joseph Saurin

topic: Death, Long, Dying

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Life, Death, Anticipation, Afraid Of Death, Inadequate

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

- Bertolt Brecht

topic: Life, Death, Fear, Afraid Of Death, Inadequate

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

topic: Death, Atheist, Intelligence, Stupidity And Intelligence, Christian Church

Brief and powerless is man's life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark.

topic: Death, Christian, Atheist, Christian Theology, Religious Dogma

The objections to religion are of two sorts - intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true; the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow.

topic: Death, Fall, Dark, Unyielding

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

topic: Death, Religious, Men, Objections, Moral Conscience

There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.

topic: Death, God, Spiritual, Uneasy, God Is There

- Betty Shine

topic: Death, New Life, Life Death

One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.

- Beverly Donofrio

source: "Riding in Cars with Boys". www.imdb.com. 2001.

topic: Life, Death, One Day, Riding In A Car

Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.

- Big Daddy Kane

source: Song: Mortal Combat, Album: It's a Big Daddy Thing

topic: Death, People, Mind

Now flip, flop, and fly, I don't care if I die.

- Big Joe Turner

source: Song: Flip Flop And Fly

topic: Death, Care, Flip, Flip Flops

Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.

- Bill Musselman

topic: Death, Dying, Defeat

Life's too short for a funeral.

- Bill Smith

topic: Death, Suicide, Funeral, Life's Too Short

Then again, if the plant is slow growing, and you are getting older, you may want to start with a larger plant. I find myself buying larger plants each year.

- Billy Cannon

topic: Death, Years, Getting Older

One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.

topic: Death, Goal, Should

Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.

topic: Death, Home, Hands, Loving Hands

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

topic: Death, Terror, Believer

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

topic: Death, Views, Way

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

topic: Death, Christian, Tents

I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord.

topic: Death, Home, Reality, Reality Of Death, Heavenly Home

It is good to have a reminder of death before us, for it helps us to understand the impermanence of life on this earth, and this understanding may aid us in preparing for our own death. He who is well prepared is he who knows that he is nothing compared with Wakan-Tanka, who is everything; then he knows that world which is real.

topic: Death, Thinking, Giving, Do Not Fear Death

- Black Elk

topic: Death, Real, Understanding

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

topic: Death, Dying

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

topic: Death, Fate, Men

Without [diversion] we would be in a state of weariness, and this weariness would spur us on to seek a more solid means of escaping from it. But diversion amuses us, and leads us unconsciously to death.

topic: Death, Real, Vanity

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that thereshould be men indifferent to the loss of their existence and to the perils of everlasting suffering.

topic: Death, Sadness, Mean, Diversion