Quotes about Death

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

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 as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

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

Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh

Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.