In'yo Fu

Death Quotes

Starting this series out sadly: 

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" — a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain 

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929

Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught, and spent my little life without a thought, and am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim, should think of me, who never thought of him. ~René Francois Regnier

Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ~Francis Bacon, Essays 

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. ~Marcel Proust

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. ~Willa Cather

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death. ~Charles Sanders Peirce

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. ~Albert Einstein

Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. ~Jean de La Fontaine 

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. ~Marcel Proust

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. ~Madame de Stael

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. ~Norman Cousins

Let life be as beautiful as summer flowers, and death as beautiful as autumn leaves. ~Rabindranath Tagore

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. ~Arthur Schopenhauer