Quotes about death

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

Pearl S. Buck

I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies.

Albert Einstein

Anyone can stop a man’s life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

Seneca the Younger

Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation – they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness.

Theodore Roosevelt

He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

Horace

It is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.

Alexandre Dumas

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

Albert Einstein

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Edgar Allan Poe

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Plato