death Quotes

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

War is the business of barbarians.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.