Quotes about death

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

George Eliot

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful – and hence neither good nor bad.

Marcus Aurelius

Death is a cessation of the impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the strings that move the appetites, and of the discursive movements of the thoughts, and of the service to the flesh.

Marcus Aurelius

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

Jean de La Bruyere

Death. The end of sense-perception, of being controlled by our emotions, of mental activity, of enslavement to our bodies.

Marcus Aurelius

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

Warren Buffett

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.

Woody Allen

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Blaise Pascal

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

Steve Blank

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

George Washington