Top 100 Philosophy Of 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
#3. Even the death won't be an end of our dreams.Take your dreams to the tomb
Mohammed Sekouty
#4. 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
#5. Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.
Marcus Aurelius
#6. In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent
Ambrose Bierce
#7. Death is not the end; it is the beginning of the new life, the eternal life.
Debasish Mridha
#8. Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
Robin Williams
#9. I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .
Ali Shariati
#10. Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
Deepak Chopra
#11. 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
#12. You can explain a lot of things to a man. His own death is not one of them.
Brian Staveley
#13. Death is nothing but absence of physical presence
Mayank Sharma
#14. Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.
Rabindranath Tagore
#15. Oh! Death! You are the savior of life.
You are the shelter of life.
You are the destination of life.
You are the beginning and the end of life.
You are the center of the circle of life.
Debasish Mridha
#16. ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
Gore Vidal
#17. People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death.
Erich Fromm
#18. The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.
Tim O'Brien
#19. 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
#20. Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.
Justina Chen
#21. The mystery of death is a certainty, but mystery of love is everlasting.
Debasish Mridha
#22. In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?
Aberjhani
#24. The unspoken philosophy of all those in love with Ada was something like this: If I have to die to get that, then death it is.
John Corey Whaley
#25. She knew for a fact that she wasn't going to sit around and wait for some miracle to happen. She wasn't going to watch the storm in front of her and pretend like nothing had happened. Yes, Allah is expecting her to be patient and keep on marching forward
Diyar Harraz
#26. Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. 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
#28. You can never destroy the barbarian culture of hatred, violence, and death by killing barbarians. You have to destroy the philosophy that makes them barbarian.
Debasish Mridha
#29. The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
Plato
#30. 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
#31. So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist
Epicurus
#32. Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working and playing, resting and restructuring.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#33. Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.
Nenia Campbell
#34. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut
#35. Death is the destiny of every man.
Every man must know this to live wisely.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#36. There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert
#37. Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.
Ayn Rand
#38. 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
#39. Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet he is one of the philosophers who has had the greatest influence on European thought, not least because of the dramatic manner of his death.
Jostein Gaarder
#40. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
F.K. Preston
#41. Death will always be a part of life, and life will always be a part of death
Elio Melo
#42. 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
#45. Death is not the end of life, it is the beginning of an eternal journey.
Debasish Mridha
#46. The greatest happiness is a quiet kind. It's the tender understanding that we're living in a very strange place full of strange creatures. And there's quite a bit of wonder in that.
F.K. Preston
#48. In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Blaise Pascal
#50. The fear of death never left me; I couldn't get used to the thought; I would still sometimes shake and weep with terror. By contrast, the fact of existence here and now sometimes took on a glorious splendour.
Simone De Beauvoir
#52. Revolutionists have a spiritual philosophy of their own, on the strength of which they face gallows and without a wink stare in the eyes of death.
Gopal Godse
#53. Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.
Debasish Mridha
#54. Seek only to preserve life -- your own and those of others. Life alone is sacred.
Yasuo Kuwahara
#55. Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.
Marcus Aurelius
#56. I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day. Maybe that's why I don't believe in the death penalty. It forecloses all possibilities.
Carsen Taite
#57. [T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
Plato
#58. Our unconscious, then, does not believe in its own death; it behaves as if it were immortal. It knows nothing that is negative; in it contradictories coincide. This may be the secret of heroism.
Sigmund Freud
#59. 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
#60. We deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be
Seneca.
#61. Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching
darkness of the universe.
Nenia Campbell
#62. 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
#63. Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.
Jim Butcher
#64. 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
#66. 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
#67. We often forget that we are simple human beings, here to enjoy the beauty, magic, and mysteries of life and the nature to wonder. Not to live a complex, mechanical, stressful corporate life to death.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.
Aberjhani
#70. Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester's cap and bells.
Michel Foucault
#71. Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again
Munia Khan
#72. 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
#73. Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#74. I try
without success
to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority.
Emil Cioran
#75. Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because they're aware of it. I choose the second group.
Alan Joshua
#76. Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.
Edna O'Brien
#77. Drink deep the cup of life; take it's dark wine into your soul. For it passes round the table only once.
Jack McDevitt
#78. Mann's Death in Venice actually contains a snippet of philosophy about the second question, when Aschenbach, collapsed in the plaza, engages in his quasi-Socratic, anti-Socratic, ruminations.
Philip Kitcher
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. Takes birth in me,
also, dies in debris.
I am a Potpourri.
A mix of dead petals,
effusing divine fragrance.
Walking on the journey,
of controversy.
I am a Potpourri.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#82. I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.
Hannah Arendt
#83. 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
#84. We are haunted houses of history.
Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.
Stefan Molyneux
#85. A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet.
E.J. Koh
#86. All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
David Eagleman
#87. Life makes beggars out of those who have joyful hearts, taxing the living with hardship and tribulation, but the charity of companionship, the currency of shared and unmitigated love, alleviates all disconsolation.
Michelle Franklin
#88. I wish Lucilius you had been so happy as to have taken this resolution long ago I wish we had not deferred to think of an happy life till now we are come within light of death But let us delay no longer
Seneca.
#89. Being alone does not make you crazy, it reminds you of who you are.
E.J. Koh
#90. Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and fear. What more natural than that it should likewise have a share in death?
Titus Lucretius Carus
#91. Death is the defined destination at the end of our life where we transform and transcend ourselves for eternal life.
Debasish Mridha
#92. There are a lot of little lessons that can be taught around the home without sitting a child down and boring them to death with your philosophy of life!
Helen McCrory
#93. It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..
Sidney Sheldon
#94. To a common man, the opulence of the day makes no sense but to a philosopher, it is as clear as a night in the southern France.
Indiana Lang
#95. If not his life, Rustom Iraqiwalla wanted his death to be worth something.
Gaurav Parab
#97. Life is not profound without its own tragedy. It humbles us. Sets the bar for our introspection. Keeps us from believing we are gods. Puts our egos in check.
Crystal Evans
#98. No matter how much you love someone, time heals your pain and your death wish.
Parul Wadhwa
#100. That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, Not today.
Molly Ringle
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