Quotes about death

Death is always, under all circumstances, a tragedy, for if it is not then it means that life has become one.

Theodore Roosevelt

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon

People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? ‘Natural’ death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

George Orwell

I think death is the most wonderful invention of life. It purges the system of these old models that are obsolete.

Steve Jobs

When you connect to a primal idea – life, death, hunger, hope, fear – any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that’s the thing that I’ve always been attracted to in my work.

Will Smith

Whenever death occurs, whenever a life form dissolves, God, the formless and unmanifested, shines through the opening left by the dissolving form.

Eckhart Tolle

If quick, I survive. If not quick, I am lost. This is death.

Sun Tzu

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Sophocles

Of bones the city is made, Plastered with flesh and blood, Where decay and death are deposited, And pride, and ingratitude.

Buddha

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

Leo Buscaglia