Death

Food For Thought

• A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. -J. Stalin

• In the long run we are all dead. -J. Keynes

• We should all weep for men at their birth, not at their death. -Baron de Montesquieu

• Between grief and nothing I will take grief. -W. Faulkner

• Those who welcome death have never tried it for a few days.

• Everyone is sentenced to death at conception.

• It's not over until you're dead.

• You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. -M. Evers

• It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. -Epicurus

• Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well. -M. De Unamuno

• He's dead, Jim. You grab his wallet, I'll grab his tricorder.

• Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. -J. Burchill

• What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes? -Euripides

• Our life is made by the death of others. -L. Da Vinci

• Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -G.B. Shaw

• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - H. Stowe

• Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. -K. Albran

• What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. -F. Nietzsche

• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them. -E. Howe

• It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. -Euripides

• Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -S. Ertz

• Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral. -K. Albran

• After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. -M.P. Cato

• It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. -Marcus Aelius Aurelius

• Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. -John Donne

• The goal of all life is death. -Sigmund Freud

• When an old person dies, a library is lost. -Tommy Swann

• Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are God. -Jean Rostand

• Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box.

• In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave. -John James Ingalls

• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. -Epicurus