#death

If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever.

Newborn children are soft and tender. When dead, they are stiff and hard. Ten thousand plants are soft and flexible. When dead, they are dry and brittle.

To be afraid of life is to be afraid of death. And to be afraid of death is to be unable to live.

Death is the indispensable companion of life, without which life would lose all its savor.

Without death, life would be like a book whose pages are endless, and therefore meaningless.

Nothing is more creative than death, since it is the secret of life: it means that the past must always make way for the future.

To be afraid of death is only another form of thinking that one is wise when one is not; for it is to think that one knows what one does not know.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; at the beginning of the journey, this alone helps or harms her.

Neither in war nor in the courts of law ought any man to use every craft to escape death.

The difficult thing, my friends, is not to flee from death, but much rather to flee from wickedness, for it runs swifter than death.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying, and they fear death least of all men.

You may bury my body however you please, if only you can catch me, and I do not slip away from you.

Be of good cheer about death, and know of this truth: that no evil can happen to a good man, whether in life or after death.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better only the divine knows.

Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius; pay it and do not neglect it.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.

Tragic optimism means that one is, and remains, optimistic in spite of the 'tragic triad': pain, guilt, and death.

Death gives life its true seriousness and urgency. If we were immortal, we could postpone every decision forever.

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

Death is simply going home. Why should we weep when a traveler completes his long wanderings?

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

The cherry blossom is breathtaking precisely because it knows it must fall.

Neither the glory of the emperor nor the sorrow of the beggar will endure.

When you were born, you cried while the whole village rejoiced; live your life so that when you die, the village weeps while you rejoice.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if you have no sensation, neither will you have any harm.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.