It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.
Virginia WoolfI see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
Anne FrankLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawIf I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.
Billie EilishYou don’t see too many atheists on the deathbed. They all start cramming then.
Dolly PartonAll diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Ludwig van BeethovenA tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the GreatThe bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.
Hermann HesseSuppose 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 AsimovWar is a way of shattering to pieces… materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.
George OrwellOne 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 SartreOn the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody AllenLife is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad AliThere are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
James BaldwinAs flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William ShakespeareI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinWhy are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?
Woody AllenA beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Leonardo da VinciDying is a wild night and a new road.
Emily DickinsonThe level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
Noam ChomskyMillions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.
Christopher HitchensTo eat is to appropriate by destruction.
Jean-Paul SartreYou are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
EpictetusYou’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 DylanThe fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.
Albert EinsteinMortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.
Keanu ReevesWhen we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.
Christopher HitchensTyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
VoltaireThe fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark TwainHeathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
David BowieOnce the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.
Ray BradburyAlas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar WildeKnowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
Terry PratchettI’m sorry, it’s true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.
Steve JobsMy 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 BradburyMan weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. MenckenDon’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
Tennessee WilliamsI don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘
Maya AngelouMan has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.
Albert SchweitzerIt is natural to die as to be born.
Francis BaconWhen I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.
Lana Del ReyI’m not resigned, but I’m realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it’s a certainty you’ll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it’s an awful process.
Christopher HitchensWhen anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy GrahamWe’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
Charles BukowskiI don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.
Edmund HillaryBetween us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise PascalNature 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 MuirEvery existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul SartreAs long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
ChanakyaMany people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand RussellMust not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?
PlatoMy 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. TI am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston ChurchillIt is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Terry PratchettThere are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
Bill GatesConfront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.
David BowieI have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
George Bernard ShawDespise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Marcus AureliusSurrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Salvador Dali