Death quotes

“Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” Steve Jobs

“Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride all fear of embarrassment or failure. These tings just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.” Steve Jobs

“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” Steve Jobs

“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.” Martin Luther King

“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.” Thomas Mann

“ Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” Socrates

“Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.” John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

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

“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.” Plato

“No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.” Plato

“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.” Woody Allen

“On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.” Woody Allen

“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?” Woody Allen

“Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.” Woody Allen

“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.” Mark Twain

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” Mark Twain

“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” Mark Twain

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” Frank Herbert

“Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.” Che Guevara

“A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.” Fidel Castro

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.” Oscar Wilde

“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

“As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” Leonardo da Vinci

“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.” Confucius

“If we don't know life, how can we know death?” Confucius

“The goal of all life is death.” Sigmund Freud

“To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.” Buddha

“Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.” Buddha