Quotes about death — 值得背诵(转载)

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God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown
　　
　　
　　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
　　
　　
　　I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ~Jean Giraudoux, Amphitryon, 1929
　　
　　
　　There is always death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year. ~Author Unknown
　　
　　
　　All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ~Maurice Maeterlinck
　　
　　
　　To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ~Samuel Butler
　　
　　
　　Gaily I lived as ease and nature taught,
　　And spent my little life without a thought,
　　And am amazed that Death, that tyrant grim,
　　Should think of me, who never thought of him.
　　~René Francois Regnier
　　
　　
　　The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. ~Mark Twain
　　
　　
　　We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death. ~David Sarnoff
　　
　　
　　Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. ~Francis Bacon, Essays
　　
　　
　　If you spend all your time worrying about dying, living isn't going to be much fun. ~From the television show Roseanne
　　
　　
　　Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ~Henry Van Dyke
　　
　　
　　He who doesn't fear death dies only once. ~Giovanni Falcone
　　
　　
　　People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. ~Marcel Proust
　　
　　
　　Because I could not stop for Death,
　　He kindly stopped for me.
　　The Carriage held but just ourselves
　　And Immortality
　　~Emily Dickinson
　　
　　
　　A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man. ~Percival Arland Ussher
　　
　　
　　The idea is to die young as late as possible. ~Ashley Montagu
　　
　　
　　'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ~Lord Byron
　　
　　
　　No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow. ~Euripides
　　
　　
　　Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, 1945
　　
　　
　　While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~Leonardo Da Vinci
　　
　　
　　Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. ~Alice Walker
　　
　　
　　I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. ~Willa Cather
　　
　　
　　Death is a distant rumor to the young. ~Andrew A. Rooney
　　
　　
　　A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own. ~Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
　　
　　
　　There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death. ~Kenneth Patchen
　　
　　
　　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
　　
　　
　　Death, the sable smoke where vanishes the flame. ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
　　
　　
　　God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath. ~John Donne
　　
　　
　　The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ~Seneca
　　
　　
　　Years, following years, steal something every day;
　　At last they steal us from ourselves away.
　　~Horace
　　
　　
　　Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. ~Albert Einstein
　　
　　
　　Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. ~Socrates
　　
　　
　　In any man who dies there dies with him
　　his first snow and kiss and fight....
　　Not people die but worlds die in them.
　　~Yevgeny Yevtushenko, "People"
　　
　　
　　Death never takes the wise man by surprise; He is always ready to go. ~Jean de La Fontaine
　　
　　
　　Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ~Attributed to George Carlin
　　
　　
　　Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. ~Erik H. Erikson
　　
　　
　　Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ~Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
　　
　　
　　Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men. ~Herodotus
　　
　　
　　We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. ~Marcel Proust
　　
　　
　　Thou art not dead! Thou art the whole
　　Of life that quickens in the sod.
　　~Charles Hanson Towne
　　
　　
　　Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ~Tennessee Williams, "The Rose Tattoo"
　　
　　
　　We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. ~Madame de Stael