Quotes about Death
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
by Maurice Maeterlinck (Dramatist, Belgian , born in 1862) keywords: animals, death, die, helps, know, knowledge, merely, more, nothing, our, painful, than , us What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
by Albert Pike (Lawyer, American , born in 1809) keywords: alone, dies, done, immortal, others, ourselves, remains, us , world We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
by David Sarnoff (Inventor, American , born in 1891) keywords: awe, banish, cannot, dangers, death, demean, fears, life, must , standing 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.
by Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher, German , born in 1788) keywords: cowardice, every, greatest, his, life, man, more, nothing, obvious, own, person, piece, quite, suicide, tell, than, title, unassailable, us, which, world , wrong The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
by Mark Twain (Author, American , born in 1970) keywords: any, death, die, fear, follows, fully, life, lives, man, prepared , time Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
by Alice Walker (Author, American , born in 1944) keywords: because, believe, better, boring, death, fresh, less, life, only , than Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
by Tennessee Williams (Dramatist, American , born in 1911) keywords: even, fatal, hospital, inevitably, infinitely, narcotics, operation, preparing, rushes, time, towards, us, varied , while
