Quotes about death

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead…While you do not know life, how can you know about death

Confucius

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.

Cesare Pavese

I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house, And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air.

Walt Whitman

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

Washington Irving

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Eckhart Tolle

If we have loved well while we were alive, there is life after death here – our love will go on for generations.

Desmond Tutu

When you’re a failure in Hollywood, that’s like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

Marilyn Monroe

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

W. C. Fields