Quotes about Death

He sleeps. Although his fate was very strange, He lived. He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, of itself, As the night comes when day is gone. a

Death is the entrance into the great light.

Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like forward and farther are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it. (If fascination with the word forward has become universal, isn't it mainly because death is already speaking to us from nearby?)

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.