Quotes about Death
Every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.
On a wide view, I could see that it makes little difference whether one dies at the age of thirty or threescore and ten - since, in either case, other men and women will continue living, the world will go on as before.
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, [...] and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.
Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
The Earth itself must pass away,
must like a bubble effervesce
and burst to empty nothingness!
He lies who strove for high intent,
his own benumbed, unspeaking monument.
No tears can wake him now, no words, nor herbs or fungus,
who once upon a time dwelt here among us.
No field of victory, nor servile rope,
but a soft bed will be my end, I hope.
When, come what may, the inventory's done,
I died of life - I'm not the only one.
One thought keeps going round my head:
The thought of dying in my bed!
Slowly withering like some overblown
Flower the greenfly gnaws and makes his own;
Wasting away like an old candlestick
In a deserted room, grown pale and sick.
A simple Child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
what should it know of death?
Do not pity the dead [...]. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love.
Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground. The dead don't care about pretty flowers and carved marble statues.