Learn Through Quotations

“Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.”

“The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive.”

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

“When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.”

“For all men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.”

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”

“You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.”

“Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

“It is impossible that anything so natural,so necessary,and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.”

“And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living!”

“Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we'd find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.”

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“Death comes to all. But great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”

“There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death. ”

“Better to live in peace than to begin a war and lie dead.”

“Be sure to live your life, because you are a long time dead.”

“It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.”

“Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.”

“Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”

“Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”

“This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds. To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance. A lifetime is a flash of lightning in the sky. Rushing by,like a torrent down a steep mountain.”