Death Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

“A large part of our artistic creativity, our political commitment and our religious piety is fuelled by the fear of death.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Conversely, the greatest sin would be to block the dataflow. What is death, if not a condition in which information doesn’t flow?”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Doctor, what’s wrong with me?’ the doctor is likely to say, ‘Well, you have the flu,’ or ‘You have tuberculosis,’ or ‘You…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Today, the global average is only 1.5 per cent, taking war and crime together. During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We want the ability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death and misery, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5 Yet the increase in births still…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We don’t need to wait for the Second Coming in order to overcome death. A couple of geeks in a lab can…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In truth, so far modern medicine hasn’t extended our natural life span by a single year. Its great achievement has been to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Whether or not Project Gilgamesh succeeds, from a historical perspective it is fascinating to see that most late-modern religions and ideologies have…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Whereas in ancient agricultural societies human violence caused about 15 per cent of all deaths, during the twentieth century violence caused only…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and our current values, humanity’s next targets are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We identify with the inner system that takes the crazy chaos of life and spins out of it seemingly logical and consistent…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We want the ability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death and misery, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The prediction that in the twenty-first century humankind is likely to aim for immortality, bliss and divinity may anger, alienate or frighten…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“During the second half of the twentieth century this Law of the Jungle has finally been broken, if not rescinded. In most…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“How long will the Gilgamesh Project – the quest for immortality – take to complete? A hundred years? Five hundred years? A…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The only modern ideology that still awards death a central role is nationalism. In its more poetic and desperate moments, nationalism promises…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Moreover, most faiths turned death into the main source of meaning in life. Try to imagine Islam, Christianity or the ancient Egyptian…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Many anthropological and archaeological studies indicate that in simple agricultural societies with no political frameworks beyond village and tribe, human violence was…

— Yuval Noah Harari