Death quotes

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

One death is a tragedy one million is a statistic.

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

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.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.