Quotes for Death

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Deepak Chopra

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Don Miguel Ruiz

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

Joseph Stalin

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Jim Morrison

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Desiderius Erasmus

Hunting is part of a cycle of life that repeats. Life. Death. Life. Death. Death is part of life.

Roberto Baggio

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

Horace Mann

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Jim Morrison

Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

Gary Johnson

It's a profound privilege to die from stress related diseases. It is the elimination of other causes of death such as infectious disease which is responsible for bringing lifestyle diseases to the fore - and these are exquisitely sensitive to stress.

Robert Sapolsky

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Eckhart Tolle

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

Clarence Darrow

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

Edvard Munch

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Annie Lennox

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

George Eliot

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Tecumseh

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu