Here we will know the facts, we will find the answers, we will read a lot of quotations about death, are you fully prepared for that big tour ?.
Well, here are a hundred quotes in 100 pictures, not a big tour?
You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. ― The Epic of Gilgamesh
Years, following years, steal something every day;
At last they steal us from ourselves away. ― Horace
Why fear death; ’tis just as natural
As a tiny baby’s birth,
When it’s brought from Heaven’s portal
To its new home on the earth. ― Gertrude Buckingham / “Why Fear Death?”
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ― Leonardo Da Vinci
When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that breathless silence is
the music of the dark
and it’s part of the rhythm
to vanish like a spark.
Only a death like that. A rose
could prick you harder, I suppose;
you’d feel more terror at the sound
of petals falling to the ground. ― Wisława Szymborska / (1923–2012), “I’m Working on the World,” Calling Out to Yeti (1957), translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
When I think of ages past
That have floated down the stream
Of life and love and death,
I feel how free it makes us
To pass away. ― Rabindranath Tagore
Well, right now… I’m not dead. But when I am, it’s like… I don’t know, I guess it’s like being inside a book that nobody’s reading…. An old one. It’s up on a library shelf, so you’re safe and everything, but the book hasn’t been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody’ll pick it up and start reading. ― Tim O’Brien / The Things They Carried
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. ― Madame de Stael
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. ― Marcel Proust
We never bury the dead, son. We take them with us. It’s the price of living. ― Mark Goffman and Jose Molina, Sleepy Hollow
“The Golem” (season 1, episode 10), original airdate 2013 December 9th, spoken by the character Henry Parrish
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ― David Sarnoff
Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. ― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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
To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one’s own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. ― Friedrich Nietzsche / Expeditions of an Untimely Man
‘Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ― Lord Byron
We need more courage to die alone. Everybody wants to die with the regiment. ― Martin H. Fischer / (1879–1962)
To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it. ― C.G. Jung
‘Tis done:—the soul hath left its soft abode;
How pale the cheek where warmth and beauty glow’d!…
Say, does thy soul with dazzling glories bright,
Exult and ‘spatiate in the fields of light?…
Such sweetness lost demands a parting tear…
The gen’rous wish, the feeling soul was thine.
Lamented stroke! O lost so late, so soon!
‘Twas Heav’n bestow’d, and Heav’n recall’d the boon…
We saw but late thy op’ning roses glow,
Like fruit that blushes on the bending bough;
But late th‘ unfolding blossoms breath’d perfume,
Till Death stept in, and lopt them in the bloom…
Life soon expires; and tho’ ‘tis fancy’d long,
Youth dies a child, and age itself is young:
Pass but one cloudy scene,—’tis quickly done,
We leave the earth, behold the rising sun,
Mount o’er the skies, love, triumph, and adore,
Where Grief shall blast, and Death shall sting no more. ― John Ogilvie / “To the memory of Mrs S—,” 1754
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ― Tennessee Williams / “The Rose Tattoo”
Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole
Of life that quickens in the sod. ― Charles Hanson Towne
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. ― Arthur Schopenhauer
There’s nothing that death is e’er able to do
But sever the cord that binds body to you… ― Gertrude Tooley Buckingham / “We Do Not Grow Old” (1940s)
There’s nothing certain in a man’s life except this: That he must lose it. ― Aeschylus / Agamemnon
There isn’t much sudden death — there’s usually time to square yourself. ― Martin H. Fischer / (1879–1962)
There is only one ultimate and effectual preventive for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death. ― Harvey Cushing
There are so many little dyings that it doesn’t matter which of them is death. ― Kenneth Patchen
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it. ― Doris Day
The light of her earthly existence is now extinguished forever. ― Elizabeth J. Eames / “An Autumn Reverie,” October 1840
The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without. ― Quoted in Elbert Hubbard, “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest,” 1907; often modernized as “The graveyards are full of indispensable men.” (Thanks, Garson O’Toole of quoteinvestigator.com!)
The goal of all life is death. ― Sigmund Freud
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive — perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine. ― Mignon McLaughlin / The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ― Seneca
Suicide is… the sincerest form of criticism life gets. ― Wilfred Sheed / The Good Word, 1978
Someday I’ll be a weather-beaten skull resting on a grass pillow,
Serenaded by a stray bird or two.
Kings and commoners end up the same,
No more enduring than last night’s dream. ― Ryokan
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ― Henry Van Dyke
Philander lives, but on what distant shore?
Philander lives, but lives to me no more….
More than Ophelia lost Philander gain’d,
A friend I lose, that friend has heav’n attain’d…. ― Ophelia / “To the Memory of a deceased Friend,” The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1751
People living deeply have no fear of death. ― Anaïs Nin / Diary, 1967
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
Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep,—
He hath awaken’d from the dream of life. ― Shelley / “Adonais”
Paradise –
I see flowers
from the cottage where I lie. ― Yaitsu’s death poem, 1807
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. ― Albert Einstein
Our birth is nothing but our death begun. ― Edward Young / Night Thoughts
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. Instead of the sympathy, the friendly union, of life and death so apparent in Nature, we are taught that death is an accident, a deplorable punishment for the oldest sin, the arch-enemy of life, etc…. But let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory for, for it never fights. All is divine harmony. ― John Muir / (1838–1914), A Thousand-Mile Walk To the Gulf
On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. ― Chuck Palahniuk / Fight Club
Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed. ― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Oh, may I join the choir invisible
Of those immortal dead who live again. ― George Eliot / The Choir Invisible
Oh, for the time when I shall sleep
Without identity. ― Emily Bronte
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ― Albert Einstein
No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well. ― Plato
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. ― Euripides
Name me no names for my disease,
With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these,
But homesick unto death. ― Witter Bynner / “The Patient to the Doctors”
My soul is full of whispered song;
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are all alive with light. ― Alice Cary / Dying Hymn
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ― Susan Ertz / Anger in the Sky
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 / Essays
Man does not die, for death’s not true;
We’ll just pass on to joys anew… ― Gertrude T. Buckingham / “There Is No Death”
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ― Alice Walker
Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. ― Homer / Iliad
Let life be as beautiful as summer flowers
And death as beautiful as autumn leaves. ― Rabindranath Tagore
Into the winter’s gray delight,
Into the summer’s golden dream,
Holy and high and impartial,
Death, the mother of Life,
Mingles all men for ever. ― William Ernest Henley / “XIV: Ave, Caesar!”, In Hospital
In any man who dies there dies with him
his first snow and kiss and fight….
Not people die but worlds die in them. ― Yevgeny Yevtushenko / “People”
Immortality—dazzling idea! who first imagined thee! Was it some jolly burgher of Nuremburg, who with night-cap on his head, and white clay pipe in mouth, sat on some pleasant summer evening before his door, and reflected in all his comfort, that it would be right pleasant, if, with unextinguishable pipe, and endless breath, he could thus vegetate onwards for a blessed eternity? Or was it a lover, who in the arms of his loved one, thought the immortality-thought, and that because he could think and feel naught beside!—Love! Immortality! ― Heinrich Heine / “The Hartz Journey” (1824), Pictures of Travel, translated from German by Charles Godfrey Leland, 1855
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
If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn’t going to be much fun. ― From the television show Roseanne
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
I wouldn’t mind dying — it’s the business of having to stay dead that scares the [shit] out of me. ― R. Geis
I sing of Death; yet soon, perchance may be
A dweller in the tomb. But twenty years
Have wither’d, since my pilgrimage began,
And I look back upon my boyish days
With mournful joy; as musing wand’rers do,
With eye reverted, from some lofty hill,
Upon the bright and peaceful vale below.—
Oh! let me live, until the fires that feed
My soul, have work’d themselves away, and then,
Eternal Spirit, take me to Thy home!
For when a child, I shaped inspiring dreams,
And nourish’d aspirations that awoke
Beautiful feelings flowing from the face
Of Nature; from a child, I learn’d to reap
A harvest of sweet thoughts for future years. ― Robert Montgomery / “Death,” A Universal Prayer; Death; A Vision of Heaven; and A Vision of Hell; &c. &c., 1829
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. ― Willa Cather
I see thy soul shake off its earthly load,
Spring into life, immortal, half a god….. ― Ophelia / “To the Memory of a deceased Friend,” The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1751
I intend to live forever. So far, so good. ― Steven Wright
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ― Thomas Browne / An Essay on Death
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. ― Erik H. Erikson
He who doesn’t fear death dies only once. ― Giovanni Falcone
He himself had still the pale evening red of yesterday’s joy on his face; but this very indifference to the gradual extinguishing of his days, this growing feebleness and faintness of tone in his conversation, caused Victor to turn away his eyes from him whenever they had for some time rested upon him. Emanuel looked down calm as an eternal sun on the autumn of his bodily life; nay, the more the sand fell from his life’s hourglass, so much the more clearly did he look through the empty glass. And yet the earth was to him a beloved place, a fair meadow for our earliest plays of childhood; and he still hung upon his mother of our first life with the love wherewith the bride spends the evening full of childish remembrances on the bosom of her beloved mother, before on the morrow she goes to meet the bridegroom of her heart. ― Jean Paul Friedrich Richter / Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography, translated from German by Charles T. Brooks, 1865
I knew a man who once said, “death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back.” ― Gladiator / written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson, 2000
He had the unmistakable sensation of being wounded so near to death that he felt his soul slide out of him, then slip back. ― Norman Mailer / preface to 1976 reissue of Advertisements for Myself, referring to Ernest Hemingway #nde
He first deceas’d; She for a little tri’d
To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d. ― Henry Worton
Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught,
And spent my little life without a thought,
And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim,
Should think of me, who never thought of him. ― René Francois Regnier
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ― Edvard Munch
…free from the trammels of clay, time, and space… ― James Gillingham / (1838–1924), The Seat of the Soul Discovered or the World’s Great Problem Solved, with Objections to the Same Answered, second edition, 1870
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? ― Khalil Gibran / “The Prophet” (Thanks, Roxalanne)
For did he think by this one paltry deed
To cut the knot of circumstance, and snap
The chain which binds all being? ― Amy Levy / “A Minor Poet,” c.1884
For death,
Now I know, is that first breath
Which our souls draw when we enter
Life, which is of all life center. ― Edwin Arnold
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! ― E.M. Cioran
Embalm, v.: To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor’s lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and the rose are languishing for a nibble at his glutaeus maximus. ― Ambrose Bierce
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ― Elbert Hubbard
Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. ― George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. ― Jean de La Fontaine
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ― Socrates
Death is your dancing soul returning to the heavens. ― Terri Guillemets / “Sessile,” 1989
Death is the surest calculation that can be made. ― Ludwig Büchner / Force and Matter
Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax. ― Philip Dow
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ― Norman Cousins
Death is life’s way of telling you you’re fired. ― Author Unknown
Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last. ― Robert Brault / rbrault.blogspot.com
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. ― George Bernard Shaw
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ― Attributed to George Carlin
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident — It is as common as life. ― Henry David Thoreau / 11 March 1842, letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and from impulses that make us their puppets, from the vagaries of the mind, and the hard service of the flesh. ― Marcus Aurelius / Meditations
Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees. ― J.J. Furnas