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

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

Horace Mann

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

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

Jim Morrison

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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

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

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

Annie Lennox

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 idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

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

Edvard Munch

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

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

George Eliot

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Jean de La Fontaine

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Clarence Darrow

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

Chiang Kai-shek

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