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

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

Joseph Stalin

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

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

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Jim Morrison

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

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Jim Morrison

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

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

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

George Eliot

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Edvard Munch

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

In Hinduism, Shiva is a deity who represents transformation. Through destruction and restoration, Shiva reminds us that endings are beginnings, and that our world is constantly undergoing a cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

Karen Salmansohn

'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

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King, Jr.