Quotes About:  Death

Francis Bacon ⇒

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Susan Ertz ⇒

Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Alexandre Dumas ⇒

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

Buddha ⇒

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Samuel Butler ⇒

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

David Sarnoff ⇒

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

Albert Pike ⇒

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Marlene Dietrich ⇒

When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.

Leonardo da Vinci ⇒

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Stewart Alsop ⇒

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.