The goal of all life is death.
- Sigmund Freud
Death Quotes and Sayings
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
- Leonardo Da Vinci
All say, “How hard it is that we have to die” – a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
- Mark Twain
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
- Doris Day
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
- Charles Sanders Peirce
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
- Ernest Hemingway
When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness…. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…. I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it.
- H.L. Mencken
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
- Francis Bacon
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
- Oscar Wilde
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
- Mignon McLaughlin
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
- Alice Walker
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
- Che Guavara