Quotes about Death

Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.

Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism in art and in politics is a veiled longing for death.

That's how it is: even in the throes of death, man is always on stage. And even 'the plainest' of them, the least exhibitionist, because it's not always the man himself who climbs on stage. If he doesn't do it, someone will put him there. That is his fate as a man.

The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.

She came from a land where revolutionary illusion had long since faded but where the thing he admired most in revolution remained: life on a large scale; a life of risk, daring, and the danger of death. Sabina had renewed his faith in the grandeur of human endeavour. Superimposing the painful drama of her country on her person, he found her even more beautiful.

Is it better to shout and thereby hasten the end, or to keep silent and gain thereby a slower death?

Murder simply hastens a bit what God will eventually see to on His own.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Love is easily killed.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have comes from her. I can't remember her humor, but I can remember her love and understanding of me.

Tobacco is the tomb of love.