Death Quotes

If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No. 2. Power, I reckon, would be where oxygen is.

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Everything that gets born dies.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.