I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac AsimovWe fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.
Thich Nhat HanhA beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Leonardo da VinciIf we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
George EliotThe essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
George OrwellDo not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard ShawDeath may be the greatest of all human blessings.
SocratesBetween us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise PascalCivilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.
Thich Nhat HanhOne always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.
Jean-Paul SartreNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamDisease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel JohnsonSome day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry AdamsDeath is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Tennessee WilliamsLife is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
James BaldwinYou’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.
Bob DylanSooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you’re gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It’s yours. Seize your space.
Margaret AtwoodWithout health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.
BuddhaAs flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William ShakespeareMy personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.
Ray BradburyHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob MarleySurrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador DaliLife is wasted on the living.
Douglas AdamsDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EpicurusShall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
Alexander the GreatAs a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da VinciEven today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.
Pope FrancisAll diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Niccolo MachiavelliMy gold, my money couldn’t stop cancer from appearing on my body. If they can’t save me, then I don’t need them.
Mr. TWhether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.
Clint EastwoodFor in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s futures. And we are all mortal.
John F. KennedyAlas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar WildePrevious generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry PratchettThis is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.
Alice WalkerColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob DylanIf anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.
Elon MuskIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil GibranAge doesn’t bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It’s the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am.
David BowieThe fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Albert EinsteinDeath to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Bob DylanEach life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen KingSuppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac AsimovThat we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel JohnsonDeath is a fearful thing.
William ShakespeareSometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.
Marilyn MonroeWhen we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
Christopher HitchensI did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘
Noam ChomskyNature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
John MuirWhich death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.
Julius CaesarOne has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich NietzscheDeath is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.
George H. W. BushI’ve looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.
Douglas MacArthurWe all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.
Frank OceanDeath obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.
J. K. RowlingThe last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
Blaise PascalKnowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
Terry PratchettFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiAs a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.
Chanakya