Quotes about death

At the beginning of our life is birth, during which we suffer, and at the end of our life is death, during which we also suffer. Between these two come aging and illness. No matter how wealthy you are or how physically fit you are, you have to suffer through these circumstances.

14th Dalai Lama

A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought.

George Eliot

Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose but weep to have that which it fears to lose.

William Shakespeare

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

T. S. Eliot

Wherever the European had trod, death seemed to pursue the aboriginal.

Charles Darwin

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

Bob Dylan

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

Buddha

Most of the world’s religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the integral oneness.

Laozi

In life, we weep at the thought of death. In death, perhaps we weep at the thought of life.

Marilyn Monroe