It’s not that I’m afraid of death…I’m just afraid of the pain that usully accompanies it.
Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Death is for the living and not for the dead. ~ Floyd McClure in Gates of Heaven
…when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Death row is a state of mind. ~ Doris Ann Foster
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. ~ Woody Allen
All things end, sooner or later, all that we can change is the manner of it. ~ Ross Mulders
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~ Albert Einstein
We do not mourn the loss of those who die fufilling their destinies. ~ Forestmaster from the Dragonlance Saga
Life is but a passing dream, but the death that follows is eternal. ~ Seymour Guado from Final Fantasy X
Ultimately, we’re all dead men. Sadly we cannot chose how. But, we can decide how we meet that end in order that we are remembered as men. ~ Proximo (Gladiator)
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. ~Heywood Brown
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man’s cottage door and at the palaces of kings. ~ Horace
A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered ‘How am I supposed to know?’
‘How do you know? You’re a Zen master!’ exclaimed the samurai.
‘Yes, but not a dead one,’ Hakuin answered.” ~Zen mondo
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. ~Epicurus
Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death. ~ Jack Kevorkian
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ~Plato
We look at death from the selfish side, like: “That guy died. Oh, it’s so sad.” Why is it sad? He’s away from all of this bad stuff that’s here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he’s just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he’s an angel… or he’s a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that? ~Tupac Shakur
Death is for the living and not for the dead. ~ Floyd McClure in Gates of Heaven
…when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Death row is a state of mind. ~ Doris Ann Foster
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down. ~ Woody Allen
All things end, sooner or later, all that we can change is the manner of it. ~ Ross Mulders
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. ~ Albert Einstein
We do not mourn the loss of those who die fufilling their destinies. ~ Forestmaster from the Dragonlance Saga
Life is but a passing dream, but the death that follows is eternal. ~ Seymour Guado from Final Fantasy X
Ultimately, we’re all dead men. Sadly we cannot chose how. But, we can decide how we meet that end in order that we are remembered as men. ~ Proximo (Gladiator)
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. ~Heywood Brown
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man’s cottage door and at the palaces of kings. ~ Horace
A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered ‘How am I supposed to know?’
‘How do you know? You’re a Zen master!’ exclaimed the samurai.
‘Yes, but not a dead one,’ Hakuin answered.” ~Zen mondo
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. ~Epicurus
Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death. ~ Jack Kevorkian
Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? ~Plato
We look at death from the selfish side, like: “That guy died. Oh, it’s so sad.” Why is it sad? He’s away from all of this bad stuff that’s here on Earth. I mean, at the worst, he’s just somewhere quiet, no nothing. At best, he’s an angel… or he’s a spirit somewhere. What is so bad about that? ~Tupac Shakur
When I die, I would like to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my Grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers. ~ Jack Handey
When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ~Kabir
We may have days, we may have hours. But sooner or later, we all push up flowers… ~ Membrillo from Grim Fandango
Death is its own reward. ~WarCraft 3
One should not be afraid from death itself, but from the sorrows if brings with it. ~ Keith Azzopardi
Fear from the Unknown, as well as physical and psychological pain, are what make death so terrifying; nothing else. ~ Keith Azzopardi
When you were born, you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ~Kabir
We may have days, we may have hours. But sooner or later, we all push up flowers… ~ Membrillo from Grim Fandango
Death is its own reward. ~WarCraft 3
One should not be afraid from death itself, but from the sorrows if brings with it. ~ Keith Azzopardi
Fear from the Unknown, as well as physical and psychological pain, are what make death so terrifying; nothing else. ~ Keith Azzopardi
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