Famous Death Quotes
The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti – freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
The war? I can't find it too terrible! The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!
Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death.
Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day’s wine to La Guillotine.
Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.