
Top 100 Quotes About Death Philosophy
#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. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#4. Even the death won't be an end of our dreams.Take your dreams to the tomb
Mohammed Sekouty
#5. 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
#6. Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.
Marcus Aurelius
#9. I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' growing up. How so very foolish. In fact, what doesn't kill you is only delaying the inevitable.
Jeremy Caldwell
#10. There are no separations - only connections. There are no deaths - only transformations.
Debasish Mridha
#11. In the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent
Ambrose Bierce
#12. Death is not the end; it is the beginning of the new life, the eternal life.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death.
Robin Williams
#14. 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
#15. Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.
Deepak Chopra
#16. There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.
James Runcie
#17. Life is measured by - the ones left behind? Or his Faith? By Love? or by the people aside you? Or it has no meaning at all?
Aman Jassal
#18. 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
#19. After I die if I am buried I will rot. If I am burnt I will become ash but if my body is donated I will live to give life and happiness to many."
"Live life after death - pledge to donate your body.
Amit Abraham
#20. I should like to abolish funerals; the time to mourn a person is at his birth, not his death.
Baron De Montesquieu
#21. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
Ayn Rand
#22. Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
Frank Herbert
#23. Philosophy was that death should not be embarrassing; he was not about to powder its nose.
Mitch Albom
#24. Death is the promise we're all born with, sir. A good
death is better than a poor one.
Michael Moorcock
#25. I saw death come for you, and I had no philosophy.
Mary Renault
#26. I think in life there is only one absolute truth.
Death ... It's the only definitive horizon, sometime it leaps, runs across mountains and vanishes beyond oceans but the closer you get, the more you see and you know it is the final destination, the absolute truth. We are only living to die.
Crystal Evans
#27. You can explain a lot of things to a man. His own death is not one of them.
Brian Staveley
#28. Death is nothing but absence of physical presence
Mayank Sharma
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. Philosophy has often attempted to repress insolence by asserting that all conditions are leveled by death; a position which, however it may defect the happy, will seldom afford much comfort to the wretched.
Samuel Johnson
#32. ...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?
Gore Vidal
#33. Better to head off into the unknown than stay here, where death was most certain
James Rollins
#34. 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
#36. The presence of danger has a way of making you feel fully awake.
Tim O'Brien
#37. Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
Kobo Abe
#38. 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
#39. Wisdom to accept change creates life, but conformity creates stagnation and leads to death.
Debasish Mridha
#40. The true philosopher lives his life as a dress rehearsal for death.
Peter Kreeft
#41. Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.
Paulo Coelho
#42. When the Aggregates arise, decay and die, O bhikkhu, every moment you are born, decay, and die.
Gautama Buddha
#43. Life is a mission but death is the greatest adventure.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.
Justina Chen
#45. When life is an existential suffering, death is our ultimate blessings.
Debasish Mridha
#46. If disguise was a vehicle, murder was a world.
E.J. Koh
#47. The mystery of death is a certainty, but mystery of love is everlasting.
Debasish Mridha
#48. In the presence of death, no philosophy of life can feel triumphant!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming?
Aberjhani
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.
Amy King
#55. In order to tame death, they refuse to completely enjoy life. In rejecting complete enjoyment, they are half-dead in advance - and that with no guarantee that their sacrifice will actually benefit them when all is done.
Tom Robbins
#56. Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#57. 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
#59. 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
#60. The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.
Plato
#61. 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
#62. So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist
Epicurus
#63. To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.
Erich Fromm
#64. 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
#65. Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.
Nenia Campbell
#66. The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.
Kurt Vonnegut
#67. Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.
Luellen Hoffman
#68. Death is the destiny of every man.
Every man must know this to live wisely.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#69. There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Frank Herbert
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. We do not fear death.
We fear not having lived enough.
Manoj Vaz
#73. 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
#74. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
F.K. Preston
#75. Death will always be a part of life, and life will always be a part of death
Elio Melo
#76. 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
#77. Life is Death. Death is Life. Teach the deserving. Teach with passion. Learn always. Assume Nothing.
Shaolin
#78. 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
#81. Death is not the end of life, it is the beginning of an eternal journey.
Debasish Mridha
#82. 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
#84. In the world of Buddhist mind, in the advanced states, we go beyond time, space, life, death and Newsweek.
Frederick Lenz
#85. Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Blaise Pascal
#87. 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
#89. Sharpen your life always; even though it will come to an end like a pencil, we have to keep on writing
Munia Khan
#90. 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
#91. Death is the final dance of dreams, desires, loves and hopes.
Debasish Mridha
#93. Seek only to preserve life -- your own and those of others. Life alone is sacred.
Yasuo Kuwahara
#94. I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.
Kirsten Dunst
#95. Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.
Solange Nicole
#96. I am longing for you in life and in death
As the moon is longing for night
and life is longing for breath
Debasish Mridha
#97. Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.
Marcus Aurelius
#98. My creativity keeps me from starving. Humanity keeps my life mundane. Loving secures my love for life, but my imagination keeps me sane.
F.K. Preston
#99. 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
#100. [T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
Plato
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