Death Does Not Concern Us Quotes

#1. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Epicurus

#2. Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

Anna Akhmatova

#3. The primary moral judgment on candidates and their positions is to be made in the light of their concern for protecting human life from conception to natural death.

Francis George

#4. Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#5. There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

Robert Martensen

#6. i'm not worried about death, my biggest concern is not living enough while alive..

R H Sin

#7. And she wondered if it were possible to love someone enough to die from it. If it were possible to love someone enough that time and distance and death were of no concern.

Sarah J. Maas

#8. Death via extreme pleasure was a serious concern.

Darynda Jones

#9. Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic

James Branch Cabell

#10. An inverse operation multiplies to such a degree what concerns our welfare and divides by such a formidable figure what does not concern it, that the death of millions of unknown people hardly affects us more unpleasantly than a draught.

Marcel Proust

#11. Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us

B.S. Johnson

#12. The kind of courage that is strengthened or created by concern about what others will think is really a form of fear. Fear of disapproval or dishonor becoming stronger than fear of injury or even death.

Michael Josephson

#13. So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.

Epicurus

#14. Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

Epicurus

#15. [M]y religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave.

Stonewall Jackson

#16. Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo)

Victor Hugo

#17. A bit of mist and light suffice for life to overpower nothingness. A bit of hope and time suffice for you to cross the mountain trails of myth; you were spared the fate of your ancestors. So borrow the wisdom of the anemones and say: Nothingness does not concern me, even if death besieges me.

Mahmoud Darwish