The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, ‘Let no one be called happy till his death;’ to which I would add, ‘Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.’
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Death, Happiness
Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.
John Keats | Death
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats | Love and death
Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable
Bhagavad Gita – Death, Birth
Promise me that when I die only my friends shall stand about my coffin, and no inquisitive crowd. See that no priest or anyone else utter falsehoods at my graveside, when I can no longer protect myself; and let me descend into my tomb as an honest pagan.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Death, Honesty
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Death
Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Respect, Death
The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
Seneca – Death
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Seneca – Richness, Death
If you don’t know how to die, don’t worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don’t bother your head about it.
Michel de Montaigne – Death
Death as a fact becomes less brutal if you can accept that it is a necessary part of life. The universe recycles everything in the never-ending flow of time. The atoms that make up your body have found a temporary shelter only. Like birds of passage they are always in flight.
Deepak Chopra – Death
Many cultures have viewed the barrier between life and death as permeable. We insist on making it into a wall, and behind this insistence lurks a good deal of unspoken fear.
Deepak Chopra – Death, Culture
Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It’s a palliative. The remedy is death.
Nicolas Chamfort – Living, Death
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.
George Eliot – Death and severity
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
