Death Quotes - Page 37

• You can't get out of life alive.

  Les Brown

  Dying, Alive

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• There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

  Charles Mackay

  Taken, Dying, Decay

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• If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

  Don Marquis

  Children, Maturity, Dying

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• Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Home, Not Ready

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.638

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• We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

  Graham Greene

  Near Death, Resigned

  Graham Greene (1951). “The heart of the matter”

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• I still live. Pretty.

  Daniel Webster

  Near Death, Near Death Experience, Stills

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• This is no time to make new enemies.

  Voltaire

  Life, Insanity, Enemy

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• Thomas Jefferson survives.

  John Adams

  Life, Life And Death, Insanity

  Quoted in Susan Boylston Adams Clark, Letter to Abigail Louisa Smith Adams Johnson, 9 July 1826. In fact, Jefferson had died a few hours earlier on this, the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Eliza Quincy, in her 1861 memoirs, wrote that the last words Adams spoke distinctly were "Thomas Jefferson"; the rest of the sentence, she noted, was inarticulate. See Jefferson 55

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• Failure too is a form of death.

  Graham Greene

  Failure, Form

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• The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.

  Henry Miller

  Sex, War, Loss

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death.

  Sam Harris

  Truth Is, Happens, Knows

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.208, W. W. Norton & Company

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• In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It’s called Karoshi. I don’t want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon.

  Scott Adams

  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Scott Adams (1996). “The Dilbert principle: a cubicle's-eye view of bosses, meetings, management fads & other workplace afflictions”

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• One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

  Francis Bacon

  Father, Men, Young

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.289

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• The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.

  Alan Ball

  Important, Facts, Dies

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• We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

  Seth

  Real, Fall, Self

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• We do not know what awaits each of us after death, but we know that we will die. Clearly, it must be possible to live ethically-with a genuine concern for the happiness of other sentient beings-without presuming to know things about which we are patently ignorant. Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person you will pass in the street today, is going to die. Living long enough, each will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

  Sam Harris

  Loss, Genuine Concern, Long

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• From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such a way that individual members last a certain time. Perhaps a certain kind of species would be better able to survive if the individuals didn't last too long. Other kinds could last longer.

  David Bohm

  Views, Long, Would Be

  Professor Chris Jenks, David Bohm (2004). “Thought as a System”, p.60, Routledge

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• To have died once is enough.

  Virgil

  Enough, Died

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• What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

  Francis Bacon

  Cry, Born, Should

  "Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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• A little while with grief and laughter, And then the day will close; The shadows gather ... what comes after No man knows.

  Don Marquis

  Laughter, Grief, Men

  Don Marquis, William McCollum (1982). “Selected letters of Don Marquis”, Northwoods Pr

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• Is it then so sad a thing to die?

  Virgil

  So Sad, Dies

  Virgil (1961). “The Aeneid”

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• These passions of soul, these conflicts so fierce, will cease, and be repressed by the casting of a little dust.

  Virgil

  Passion, Dust, Soul

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• I never had a dog that showed a human fear of death. Death, to a dog, is the final unavoidable compulsion, the least ineluctable scent on a fearsome trail, but they like to face it alone, going out into the woods, among the leaves, if there are any leaves when their time comes, enduring without sentimental human distraction the Last Loneliness, which they are wise enough to know cannot be shared by anyone.

  James Thurber

  Wise, Dog, Loneliness

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• My girlfriend's weird. One day she asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, forget it.

  Steven Wright

  Girlfriend, One Day, Want

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• The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

  James Montgomery

  Stars, Eye, Sky

  James Montgomery (1861). “Poems ... To which is added a memoir of the author. A new edition, with illustrations”, p.292

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