Death Quote by George Eliot

It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a person's death consecrates him or her anew to us. It…

— George Eliot

“When we renounce our dreams and find peace,’ he said after a while, ‘we go through a short period of tranquility. But the dead…

— Paulo Coelho

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of…

— Sadegh Hedayat

“The signal danger of life in a godless society is that it lacks reminders of the transcendent and therefore leaves us unprepared for disappointment…

— Alain de Botton

Inherently within the temperamental soul of humanity lies a shivering and thoroughly jealous irrational thought of death. Life has such a fickle intense passion,…

— Johnny Luckett

Even in an empire of atheists the dead man is always sacred.

— Anonymous

The thought of death deceives us; for it causes us to neglect to live.

— Luc de Clapiers

“Death frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that someday death will come to us.…

— R.C. Sproul

Death (or its allusion) makes men precious and pathetic. They are moving because of their phantom condition; every act they execute may be their…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Death seemed to depict the finality of the hopelessness which is man’s lot alienated from God. It does not, however, mean loss of any…

— Mildred Bangs Wynkoop

Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and…

— Ida Tarbell

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be…

— Plutarch