A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
Alexander the GreatThere’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina JolieMy 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 BradburyI 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 FrankBecause I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
Ayrton SennaTyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
VoltaireOne has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.
Christopher HitchensHeathenism 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 BowieYou’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.
Billy GrahamA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous HuxleySome day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Henry AdamsMen ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo MachiavelliA tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
George OrwellI’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.
Anne FrankOnly on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Henry AdamsLife is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.
Muhammad AliLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawSomeone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
Virginia WoolfThe body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTo walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George OrwellKnowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
Terry PratchettDeath is just life’s next big adventure.
J. K. RowlingEvery man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin LutherThe same ambition can destroy or save, and make a patriot as it makes a knave.
Alexander PopeAs 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?
ChanakyaNature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
Henry David ThoreauIt is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
EpicurusDeath is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve JobsBut blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?
Alexander PopeDeath does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
EpicurusIf you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.
Noam ChomskyMy father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.
Christopher HitchensThe 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 PascalOne has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
Friedrich NietzscheI’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 HitchensThat we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
Samuel JohnsonMan the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinLife is wasted on the living.
Douglas AdamsIt is natural to die as to be born.
Francis BaconCan a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. LewisWe’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 BukowskiIn the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Christopher HitchensAt first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.
Greta ThunbergThe 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 ChomskyFear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
Ernest HemingwayWe don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.
Steve JobsI do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis BaconWhich death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.
Julius CaesarBetween us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise PascalHerb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
Bob MarleyA beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Leonardo da VinciI look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
Benjamin FranklinIf my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Khalil GibranHow young can you die of old age?
Steven WrightI don’t pick up toys. I crush them.
Jocko WillinkWhen 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 ReyMy 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. TYou’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 DylanColleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob Dylan