Quotes about death

Sleep, those little slices of death – how I loathe them.

Edgar Allan Poe

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

Death can be more exciting than life.

George S. Patton

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Khalil Gibran

if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his action, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting life a good or a bad man.

Plato

Beauty is the spirit of all things, an exaltation, a psalm of life and death, of good and evil, of vileness and purity, of joy and pain, of hate and love – all of it incarnate in the object we see or hear. It is an empathy, a feeling into art or nature that we observe – all of it a singing harmony to our senses.

Charlie Chaplin

Naked in death upon an unknown shore.

Virgil

You can’t possibly be afraid of death, really, you can only be afraid of life.

Carl Rogers

Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.

Albert Einstein

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela