Top 100 Philosophy Death Quotes
#1. What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.
Palle Oswald
#2. Defeating the enemy through deception with little loss of life is better than fighting face-to-face with the loss of many lives on both sides.
Aleksandra Layland
#4. In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent
Ambrose Bierce
#5. Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
Deepak Chopra
#6. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel
#7. I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
Baron De Montesquieu
#8. I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.
Mary Renault
#9. Death is nothing but absence of physical presence
Mayank Sharma
#10. ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
Gore Vidal
#12. Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
Kobo Abe
#13. Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.
Will Durant
#14. The mystery of death is a certainty, but mystery of love is everlasting.
Debasish Mridha
#15. Death is not good. It's just a fact. We don't need to give it so much importance. So I don't want to read anything that talks about it.
Aditi Bose
#16. SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.
Amy King
#17. The sky is but a looking glass into a pool of airless oceans, cast off into a dance of light and energy, leaving only a facet of guidance to navigate. Such an existence lays but within the mind man.
Indiana Lang
#19. A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against his country to his death out of love for it.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#20. Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.
Nenia Campbell
#21. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut
#22. Is it truly possible to steal a life, if ... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit.
Ki Longfellow
#23. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
F.K. Preston
#24. I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.
Steve Wynn
#25. There's a saying that you can't put a price on a human life, but that saying is a lie because we have. We have, and it's so much lower than you would think. Yes, human life has its price like anything else, and will continue to do so for as long as it doubles as a commodity.
Nenia Campbell
#26. Death is not the end of life, it is the beginning of an eternal journey.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Blaise Pascal
#29. Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.
Solange Nicole
#31. Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.
Marcus Aurelius
#32. Death is not our destiny. Longing for true love is our true destiny. That is where we will find the ultimate meaning of life.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching
darkness of the universe.
Nenia Campbell
#34. [The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.
Sir Laurens Van Der Post
#35. To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
Ayn Rand
#36. At the time of death, life may end, but I will continue to live in this beautiful world among my beloved new and old friends.
Debasish Mridha
#38. Life is the gap between birth and death, so enjoy your gap.
Debasish Mridha
#39. The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#40. Fire lives in the death of earth, air lives in the death of fire, water lives in the death of air, and earth in the death of water.
Heraclitus
#41. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.
F.K. Preston
#42. Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in.
Franklin Gillette
#44. Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.
Dorothy Day
#45. The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it ... Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
Socrates
#47. There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it!
Rakesh Ranjan
#48. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.
Emil M. Cioran
#50. Death is the defined destination at the end of our life where we transform and transcend ourselves for eternal life.
Debasish Mridha
#51. All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.
Roberto Bolano
#54. Peace is a road to happiness and the future.
War is a road to destruction and death.
Debasish Mridha
#56. The dead, Your Honor, do not agonize over their crimes and do not long to be happy, as you know. If from time to time we hear the opposite, then those are just trivial religious and poetical exaggerations and ridiculous rumors, which have nothing to do with the real circumstances of the simple dead.
Hassan Blasim
#57. The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.
Maxim Gorky
#58. The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.
Georges Bataille
#59. Life's a circle. There are no lines we can cross.
F.K. Preston
#60. There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
Terry Pratchett
#61. So many dead, Grace thought in melancholy wonder, and realised, for perhaps the first time, that there were more dead people in the world than live ones.
Mary Hooper
#62. Treasures are hidden and hard to find but if we could find a real treasure, it will shine our lives. In the similar way ultimate reality is hidden and hard to find but if we could find it, it will shine our lives.
Muditha Champika
#63. I wish I could run into the world's arms. Linger within the spaces between nothing. I wish I could filter out of existence. To live quietly without dying. I wish I could be cherished by life itself. To speak and sing volumes without lying to myself.
F.K. Preston
#66. Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact.
Edward I. Koch
#67. what if there was an uncanny moment when all the birds were grounded from Cape Town to Juneau, and everywhere between--all feathers frozen in a universal stutter, so quick as to make a snail of light, and even Stephen Hawking's mind would miss it?
Kristen Henderson
#68. I don't know which I should fear more ... death or life. I wish I could be done with fear.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#69. When I die, I want to be remembered for what I did, not what I could've done
Jess Lowe
#72. I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
Hermann Hesse
#74. Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.
Ursula Tillmann
#75. You can't understand samsara, the cycle of birth and death. But try to understand what you can, for it's the essence of Vedic philosophy. Karma determines birth. It is not an accident. It's the fruit of your karma.
D.V. Murthy
#76. We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#77. Life is the time between birth and death, so express your love to enjoy your time.
Debasish Mridha
#78. I learned a lesson today: never judge a person by the way they act, nor how they dress, or the way they have their disabilities. Because everyone on Earth suffers the same hell, whether in love or hate, life or death.
Nandanie Phalgoo
#80. In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a time of peace was to hasten that unconscionably.
Melissa Marr
#81. Love is the strongest bond. Nothing can break it, not even death.
Debasish Mridha
#82. Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.
Kristina McMorris
#83. This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death.
Rene Daumal
#84. Our Thoughts have life of its own: Their Birth, Influence and Death happens at our Mind level
Gaurav Rao
#85. The only time that exists in life is now.
Ken Poirot
#86. The noise increased and came from all directions. There was no amount of reason to negotiate the void between sound and movement.
E.J. Koh
#87. Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.
Laurence Sterne
#90. What's the point?" her father muttered brokenly the day of the funeral. In the last months his shoulders had curled like an autumn leaf.
"The point is that we're not alive unless we also die," Louise said.
Danika Stone
#91. Death is not the beginning of an endless deep, dark, silent night but the beginning of a bright, joyful, eternal light.
Debasish Mridha
#92. When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Hope is the thread between life and death,
As long as hope is alive we take breath.
Debasish Mridha
#94. If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?
Peter James West
#95. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
G.K. Chesterton
#96. You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.
Stieg Larsson
#97. Stagnation is death. With love, accept and welcome changes.
Debasish Mridha
#99. All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.
F.K. Preston
#100. There is no good or evil. We classify things into good and evil because we are currently unable to solve the two problems of the world: death and dearth. If there ever comes a time when we can solve these problems, we won't be required to do this anymore.
Andreas Laurencius
