Death

(549 votes)   Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back in the same box

Italian Proverb

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(441 votes)   Life is the curse. Sleep is the remission. Death is the cure.

Denise Mugford
1966-1999

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(121 votes)   Remember, we are eternal. All this pain is an illuision.

Maynard James Keenan
Singer, Musician

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(717 votes)   In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

George Santayana

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(672 votes)   Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking, the harder it becomes to know what to say, or how to ask for what we really need.

Unknown Unknown

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(551 votes)   We cannot imagine Life without Death, because the entire Life rests on Death, otherwise it wouldn’t exist.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(432 votes)   The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(412 votes)   Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(405 votes)   There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(404 votes)   Despite that, if these dreams are shadows of God reflected into knowledge, why God’s shadows are dreams? Only because you can wake up from a dream and all these shadows always wake up in an infinite echo which depicts God? If even God’s shadows can wake up, does it mean that God is above awakening? Through Death, absolutely anything receives a connotation opposed to Life, but nevertheless, Life would never be Alive without Its Death which bestows on it its full shine, as Death wouldn’t be what it is.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(403 votes)   Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

Ernest Moritz Arndt
1769-1860, Swedish-born German Poet, Patriot

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(395 votes)   Most people would rather die than think: many do.

Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

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(355 votes)   Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author

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(332 votes)   'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.

Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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(277 votes)   Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart]

William Wallace
American Actor

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