Quotes about Death

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Director, Philosopher, Philosopher

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

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Alexander Pope

Poet

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

Death

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Harper Lee

Novelist

When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

Adulthood - Death - Good - Linguistics - Production

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Laozi

Philosopher

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

Death - Enlightenment - Inspiration - Spiritual

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H. G. Wells

Writer

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

Death - Drive - History - Mindset - Value

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Age - Death - Sarcasm - Sickness

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William Wordsworth

Poet

Memories... images and precious thoughts that shall not die and cannot be destroyed.

Death - Destroying - Memory

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Plato

Musician, Philosopher, Philosopher

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.

Blessing - Curse - Death - Man - Wellness

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George Orwell

Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Critic

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

Death

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Oscar Wilde

Poet, Playwright

Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.

Death - Making - Mindset - Wellness

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Jonathan Swift

Writer, Poet, Cleric

Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

Death

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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.

Behavior - Death - Oneself - Real - Show - Teenagers - Thinking

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

Death - Love - War

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Breathing - Crying - Death - Disease - Eternity - Feelings - Grief - Hearing - India - Insult - Joy - Story - Youth

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Samuel Beckett

Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Theatre Director

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

Death

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.

Death

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Charles Dickens

Writer, Social Critic

O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!

Creativity - Death - Growing - Human

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Entertainer, Psychologist, Psychiatrist

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.

Death - Fall - Human - Love - People - Sky

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools.

Death - Fools - Loss - Proof - Wellness

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Petrarch

Designer, Poet, Poet

Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.

Age - Answers - Art - Book - Death - Events - Past - Return - Secrets - Soul - Suffering - Teaching - Wit

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