Finality of Death Quotes

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

I was no longer, if I had ever been, afraid to die: I was now afraid not to die.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't.

Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

I am death-fearing. I don't think I'm morbid. That seems to me a fear of death that goes beyond the rational. Whereas it seems to me to be entirely rational to fear death!

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn't true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife.

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death.

As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity.

Why should I be worried about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!

Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.

The subject of death is taboo. We feel, perhaps only subconsciously, that to be in contact with death in any way, even indirectly, somehow confronts us with the prospect of our own deaths, draws our own deaths closer and makes them more real and thinkable.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it.

Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.