Quotes about death

Death is terrifying, but it would be even more terrifying to find out that you are going to live forever and never die.

Anton Chekhov

People are reluctant to talk about old age and death because they are afraid of emotion, and they willingly avoid the things they feel most emotional about, though these are the very things they most need to talk about.

Paul Tournier

Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man’s grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

Albert Camus

Man’s last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

Ovid

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Plato

If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism – no matter how certain we are that it is justified.

Dale Carnegie

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Michel de Montaigne

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.

Plato

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot

I’m scared to death of being poor. It’s like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It’s my pet paranoia.

Cher