Death Quotes: Reflections on the Inevitable (Page 2)

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Biography lends to death a new terror"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"

Woody Allen, Director

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"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, Philosopher

"Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"Death solves all problems - no man, no problem"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art"

Paul Theroux, Novelist

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

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

"Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life"

Seneca, Philosopher

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you"

Ernest Hemingway, Novelist

"Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely"

Buddha, Leader

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Nothing can happen more beautiful than death"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans"

Todd Tiahrt, Politician

"For tis not in mere death that men die most"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"First need in the reform of hospital management? That's easy! The death of all dietitians, and the resurrection of a French chef"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"There is no harm in patience, and no profit in lamentation. Death is easier to bear (than) that which precedes it, and more severe than that which comes after it. Remember the death of the Apostle of God, and your sorrow will be lessened"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms"

Che Guevara, Revolutionary

"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

"Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist