--- title: "25 Death Quotes By Yuval Noah Harari" description: "25 Death quotes by Yuval Noah Harari. Plus more from Yuval Noah Harari and more Death sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41b/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_i-don-t-want-to-achieve-immortality-thro_2399179.jpg" --- > [“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/i-don-t-want-to-achieve-immortality-through-my-work-i-want-to-achieve-3/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41b/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_i-don-t-want-to-achieve-immortality-thro_2399179.jpg) > [“Conversely, the greatest sin would be to block the dataflow. What is death, if not a condition in which information doesn’t flow?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/conversely-the-greatest-sin-would-be-to-block-the-dataflow-what-is/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/759/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_conversely-the-greatest-sin-would-be-to_1442160.jpg) > [“A large part of our artistic creativity, our political commitment and our religious piety is fuelled by the fear of death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/a-large-part-of-our-artistic-creativity-our-political-commitment-and/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f84/yuval-noah-harari-100_art_a-large-part-of-our-artistic-creativity_700647.jpg) > [“Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/woody-allen-who-has-made-a-fabulous-career-out-of-the-fear-of-death-2/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24c/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_woody-allen-who-has-made-a-fabulous-care_2653616.jpg) > [“The only modern ideology that still awards death a central role is nationalism. In its more poetic and desperate moments, nationalism promises…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/the-only-modern-ideology-that-still-awards-death-a-central-role-is/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/998/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_the-only-modern-ideology-that-still-awar_1611344.jpg) > [“In truth, so far modern medicine hasn’t extended our natural life span by a single year. Its great achievement has been to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/in-truth-so-far-modern-medicine-hasn-t-extended-our-natural-life-span/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3b/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_in-truth-so-far-modern-medicine-hasn-t-e_2222218.jpg) > [“We don’t need to wait for the Second Coming in order to overcome death. A couple of geeks in a lab can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/we-don-t-need-to-wait-for-the-second-coming-in-order-to-overcome/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c4/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_we-don-t-need-to-wait-for-the-second-com_709154.jpg) > [“In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5 Yet the increase in births still…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/in-most-agricultural-societies-at-least-one-out-of-every-three/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/057/yuval-noah-harari-100_children_in-most-agricultural-societies-at-least_532136.jpg) > [You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/you-take-fantasies-which-for-thousands-of-years-belonged-to-the/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ee/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_you-take-fantasies-which-for-thousands-o_647928.jpg) > [“Many anthropological and archaeological studies indicate that in simple agricultural societies with no political frameworks beyond village and tribe, human violence was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/many-anthropological-and-archaeological-studies-indicate-that-in/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e68/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_many-anthropological-and-archaeological_293186.jpg) > [“Moreover, most faiths turned death into the main source of meaning in life. Try to imagine Islam, Christianity or the ancient Egyptian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/moreover-most-faiths-turned-death-into-the-main-source-of-meaning-in/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/yuval-noah-harari-100_afterlife_moreover-most-faiths-turned-death-into-t_2394170.jpg) > [“We identify with the inner system that takes the crazy chaos of life and spins out of it seemingly logical and consistent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/we-identify-with-the-inner-system-that-takes-the-crazy-chaos-of-life/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fea/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_we-identify-with-the-inner-system-that-t_2309774.jpg) > [“Whereas in ancient agricultural societies human violence caused about 15 per cent of all deaths, during the twentieth century violence caused only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/whereas-in-ancient-agricultural-societies-human-violence-caused-about/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/941/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_whereas-in-ancient-agricultural-societie_404018.jpg) > [“Whether or not Project Gilgamesh succeeds, from a historical perspective it is fascinating to see that most late-modern religions and ideologies have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/whether-or-not-project-gilgamesh-succeeds-from-a-historical/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd5/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_whether-or-not-project-gilgamesh-succeed_800732.jpg) > [“Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and our current values, humanity’s next targets are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/having-secured-unprecedented-levels-of-prosperity-health-and-harmony/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6bc/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_having-secured-unprecedented-levels-of-p_2249107.jpg) > [“Woody Allen, who has made a fabulous career out of the fear of death, was once asked if he hoped to live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/woody-allen-who-has-made-a-fabulous-career-out-of-the-fear-of-death/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/089/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_woody-allen-who-has-made-a-fabulous-care_822181.jpg) > [“During the second half of the twentieth century this Law of the Jungle has finally been broken, if not rescinded. In most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/during-the-second-half-of-the-twentieth-century-this-law-of-the/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/840/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_during-the-second-half-of-the-twentieth_2235037.jpg) > [“The figures for 2002 are even more surprising. Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/the-figures-for-2002-are-even-more-surprising-out-of-57-million-dead/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/yuval-noah-harari-100_average-person_the-figures-for-2002-are-even-more-surpr_2969710.jpg) > [“The prediction that in the twenty-first century humankind is likely to aim for immortality, bliss and divinity may anger, alienate or frighten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/the-prediction-that-in-the-twenty-first-century-humankind-is-likely/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4e/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_the-prediction-that-in-the-twenty-first_2155406.jpg) > [“We want the ability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death and misery, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/we-want-the-ability-to-re-engineer-our-bodies-and-minds-in-order-2/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/694/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_we-want-the-ability-to-re-engineer-our-b_1068715.jpg) > [“How long will the Gilgamesh Project – the quest for immortality – take to complete? A hundred years? Five hundred years? A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/how-long-will-the-gilgamesh-project-the-quest-for-immortality-take-to-2/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/169/yuval-noah-harari-100_adventure_how-long-will-the-gilgamesh-project-the_2823178.jpg) > [“Today, the global average is only 1.5 per cent, taking war and crime together. During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/today-the-global-average-is-only-1-5-per-cent-taking-war-and-crime/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b5/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_today-the-global-average-is-only-1-5-per_1330656.jpg) > [“Doctor, what’s wrong with me?’ the doctor is likely to say, ‘Well, you have the flu,’ or ‘You have tuberculosis,’ or ‘You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/doctor-what-s-wrong-with-me-the-doctor-is-likely-to-say-well-you-have/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d5/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_doctor-what-s-wrong-with-me-the-doctor-i_1293999.jpg) > [“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/throughout-history-religions-and-ideologies-did-not-sanctify-life-2/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa8/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_throughout-history-religions-and-ideolog_2575180.jpg) > [“We want the ability to re-engineer our bodies and minds in order, above all, to escape old age, death and misery, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/we-want-the-ability-to-re-engineer-our-bodies-and-minds-in-order/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/56f/yuval-noah-harari-100_death_we-want-the-ability-to-re-engineer-our-b_141836.jpg) ## Other authors on Death - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 285 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/william-shakespeare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-frederick-lenz-36205.jpg) Frederick Lenz 116 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/frederick-lenz/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-green-51499.jpg) John Green 110 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/john-green/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terry-pratchett-89528.jpg) Terry Pratchett 108 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/terry-pratchett/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-mitch-albom-68622.jpg) Mitch Albom 96 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/mitch-albom/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-bukowski-22166.jpg) Charles Bukowski 90 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/charles-bukowski/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-leo-tolstoy-55.jpg) Leo Tolstoy 87 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/leo-tolstoy/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 85 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/cassandra-clare/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-king-87054.jpg) Stephen King 83 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/stephen-king/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-albert-camus-10482.jpg) Albert Camus 79 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/albert-camus/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 77 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/rick-riordan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rajneesh-77002.jpg) Rajneesh 73 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/rajneesh/) ## More by Yuval Noah Harari > [“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/for-similar-reasons-archaic-humans-did-not-initiate-any-revolutions/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/today-the-main-source-of-wealth-is-knowledge-and-whereas-you-can/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/how-do-you-cause-people-to-believe-in-an-imagined-order-such-as/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/i-think-the-basic-thing-that-happened-is-we-have-lost-our-story/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/whereas-chimpanzees-spend-five-hours-a-day-chewing-raw-food-a-single/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“the Chinese air-purification market is booming.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/the-chinese-air-purification-market-is-booming/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/whereas-liberalism-merged-with-the-milder-versions-of-nationalism-to/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/corporations-money-and-nations-exist-only-in-our-imagination-we/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/small-children-in-affluent-societies-often-dislike-showering-and-it/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/ever-more-scholars-see-cultures-as-a-kind-of-mental-infection-or/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/soviet-communism-was-a-fanatical-and-missionary-religion-a-devout/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/whereas-religion-asks-us-to-believe-in-something-money-asks-us-to/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/terrorists-are-like-a-fly-that-tries-to-destroy-a-china-shop-the-fly/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“Yet what happens if the greedy shoemaker increases his profits by paying employees less and increasing their work hours? The standard answer is that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/yet-what-happens-if-the-greedy-shoemaker-increases-his-profits-by/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) > [“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/a-natural-order-is-a-stable-order-there-is-no-chance-that-gravity/) [Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/yuval-noah-harari/#itemlist", "name": "25 Death Quotes By Yuval Noah Harari", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. 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Out of 57 million dead, only 172,000 people died in war and 569,000 died of violent crime (a total of 741,000 victims of human violence). In contrast, 873,000 people committed suicide.5 It turns out that in the year following the 9/11 attacks, despite all the talk of terrorism and war, the average person was more likely to kill himself than to be killed by a terrorist, a soldier or a drug dealer. In the decentralised kingdoms of medieval Europe, about twenty to forty people were murdered each year for every 100,000 inhabitants. In recent decades, when states and markets have become all-powerful and communities have vanished, violence rates have dropped even further. Today the global average is only nine murders a year per 100,000 people, and most of these murders take place in weak states such as Somalia and Colombia. 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So we may well think of the new human agenda as consisting really of only one project (with many branches): attaining divinity. If this sounds unscientific or downright eccentric, it is because people often misunderstand the meaning of divinity. Divinity isn’t a vague metaphysical quality. And it isn’t the same as omnipotence. When speaking of upgrading humans into gods, think more in terms of Greek gods or Hindu devas rather than the omnipotent biblical sky father. Our descendants would still have their foibles, kinks and limitations, just as Zeus and Indra had theirs. But they could love, hate, create and destroy on a much grander scale than us. 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A hundred years? Five hundred years? A thousand years? When we recall how little we knew about the human body in 1900, and how much knowledge we have gained in a single century, there is cause for optimism. Genetic engineers have recently managed to double the average life expectancy of Caenorhabditis elegans worms.12 Could they do the same for Homo sapiens? Nanotechnology experts are developing a bionic immune system composed of millions of nano-robots, who would inhabit our bodies, open blocked blood vessels, fight viruses and bacteria, eliminate cancerous cells and even reverse ageing processes.13 A few serious scholars suggest that by 2050, some humans will become a-mortal (not immortal, because they could still die of some accident, but a-mortal, meaning that in the absence of fatal trauma their lives could be extended indefinitely). Whether or not Project Gilgamesh succeeds, from a historical perspective it is fascinating to see that most late-modern religions and ideologies have already taken death and the afterlife out of the equation. Until the eighteenth century, religions considered death and its aftermath central to the meaning of life. Beginning in the eighteenth century, religions and ideologies such as liberalism, socialism and feminism lost all interest in the afterlife. What, exactly, happens to a Communist after he or she dies? What happens to a capitalist? What happens to a feminist? It is pointless to look for the answer in the writings of Marx, Adam Smith or Simone de Beauvoir. The only modern ideology that still awards death a central role is nationalism. In its more poetic and desperate moments, nationalism promises that whoever dies for the nation will for ever live in its collective memory. Yet this promise is so fuzzy that even most nationalists do not really know what to make of it. 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