Death Perspective Quotes

I never saw a U-Haul behind a hearse.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

I think the world's a better place because Bill realized that his goal isn't to be the richest guy in the cemetery, right?

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.

Not think of death as an end, but think of it more as a very effective way of cutting down on your expenses.

For the believing Christian, death is no big deal….For the nonbeliever, on the other hand, to deprive a man of his life is to end his existence. What a horrible act!

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

I believe the biggest themes of life are put into the best focus when held up against the very sharp light of mortality.

I've suffered quite a lot, to the point where I've experienced death. Years before I wasn't fit to die, but I understand life better now. Death is nice, death is beauty.

For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm not courting it, either. If you have lived well, it is the fair conclusion to life.

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of death.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

Death means you are in the third person.

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.