Quotes about Death

For it is not death or pain that is to be feared, but the fear of pain or death.

I want to die, even though I don't have to.

Lucky is the man who dies at work.

Apropos of which, Diogenes says somewhere that one way to guarantee freedom is to be ready to die.

I hope death overtakes me when I'm occupied solely with the care of my character, in an effort to make it passionless, free, unrestricted and unrestrained.

No, I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it — or do I have to die moaning and groaning too?

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

It is better to die well than to live badly.

People kill for love. They die for love.

If I die without food or without eternal salvation, I want to die without food.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long.

We don't become mature human beings by getting lucky or cleverly circumventing loss, and certainly not by avoidance and distraction. Learn to lament. Learn this lamentation. We're mortals, after all. We and everyone around are scheduled for death (mortis). Get used to it. Take up your cross. It prepares us and those around us for resurrection. — Eugene Peterson