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Men fear death, as children fear
to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased
with tales, so is the other.
FRANCIS BACON
He who fears death dies every
time he thinks of it.
STANISLAS I
Fear not death, for the sooner
we die the longer we shall be immortal.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For what is it to die, but to
stand in the sun and melt into the wind? And when the Earth has
claimed our limbs, then we shall truly dance.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Death is the most beautiful adventure
in life.
CHARLES FROHMAN
If you should die before me,
ask if you could bring a friend.
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS
The idea of death, the fear of
it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring
of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of
death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final
destiny of man.
ERNEST BECKER
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful.
It's the transition that's troublesome.
ISAAC ASIMOV
I don't want to achieve immortality
through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
WOODY ALLEN
If you were going to die soon
and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what
would you say? And why are you waiting?
STEPHEN LEVINE
If my doctor told me I had only
six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little
faster.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Death is not extinguishing the
light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
While we are mourning the loss
of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
JOHN TAYLOR
Each departed friend is a magnet
that attracts us to the next world.
JEAN PAUL RICHTER
I am ready to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting
me is another matter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
A man is not completely born
until he is dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Is death the last sleep? No--it
is the last and final awakening.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Death is a very dull, dreary
affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to
do with it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
A single death is a tragedy;
a million deaths is a statistic.
JOSEPH STALIN
I've come to look upon death
the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems
to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult
for me.
JOSEPH HELLER
The day which we fear as our
last is but the birthday of eternity.
SENECA
What we have done for ourselves
alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
ALBERT PIKE
Ancient Egyptians believed that
upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers
would determine whether they could continue their journey in
the afterlife. The first question was, "Did you bring joy?"
The second was, "Did you find joy?"
LEO BUSCAGLIA
I said to Life, I would hear
Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said,
you hear him now.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Desire is half of life, indifference
is half of death.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Do not seek death. Death will
find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD
It's a blessing to die for a
cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
ANDREW YOUNG
If man hasn't discovered something
that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
MARTIN LUTHER KING,
JR.
You can't learn to die as though
it were a skill. People die in the way they have lived. Death
becomes the expression of everything you are, and you can bring
to it only what you have brought to your life.
MICHAEL ROEMER
I am become Death, shatterer
of worlds.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
I only remember two kisses -
the first and the last. The first, with my love and the last,
with death. The first brought happiness and the last relief!
SRIJIT PRABHAKARAN
A man's dying is more the survivors'
affair than his own.
THOMAS MANN
It is impossible to experience
one's death objectively and still carry a happy tune.
WOODY ALLEN
Dying seems less sad than having
lived too little.
GLORIA STEINEM
Let us endeavour so to live that
when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN
Death is simply a shedding of
the physical body, like the butterfly coming out of a cocoon.
It is a transition into a higher state of consciousness, where
you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, to be able
to grow, and the only thing you lose is something you don't need
anymore . . . your physical body. It's like putting away your
winter coat when spring comes.
ELISABETH KÜBLER-ROSS
I would rather live and love
where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Death is the supreme festival
on the road to freedom.
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
For in that sleep of death, what
dreams may come!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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