Philosophical statements about death. Aphorisms, quotes and sayings of the wise about death

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You will have to live with the pain of loss. There is no escape from this pain. You can't hide from it, you can't run away. Sooner or later it hits again and you want only one thing - deliverance.

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THE DEATH of a loved one is the most terrible grief that can befall a person. The pain of loss sometimes seems unbearable.

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Life and death are just two moments, only our pain is endless.

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Ah, I... I regret... I'm Calling... I'm Crying!!!

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Everyone died, what's the point of denying it now? But how can you understand this with your heart?

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Take me, Lord, instead of him, and leave him on earth!

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When you first face the loss of a loved one, then you understand the price of life and the inevitability of death.

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Denial of death. Family members may act as if their loved one is not dead; waiting for him, talking to him.

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No matter how sad it sounds, our lives are short and sooner or later we will all fade into oblivion.

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The feeling of loss gives rise to torment similar to the torment of a person thrown overboard a ship...

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Take care of those you love!!! Appreciate the minutes spent together! Know how to forgive! So that later there will be no excruciating pain for unspoken words, for unperformed actions!

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Probably, if you truly love a loved one, you will never come to terms with their loss.

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There was a poem carved on the stone wall of the temple called “Loss”, it only has three words and it has only three words. But the poet scraped them off. Loss cannot be read… it can only be felt.

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People do not regret what was or is. People regret lost opportunities.

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The loss of a loved one shatters our familiar world.

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Time may heal, but they don’t live long enough to forget someone who was dear to them.

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Death passes through the Earth, separating loved ones so that later they can unite in eternity.

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Friends always live in each other's hearts, even after one dies, he will remain in the heart of the other forever.

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You left so suddenly... It’s unthinkable that your life was interrupted like that, all we were left with were tears and the truth: Remember and pray all the time.

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There is no life on earth where there is no child. Why do I live on earth if children are dying?

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It is impossible to return, it is impossible to forget... Time is inexorable!!! Half a year has already passed. Life flows by... Realization has not come!!!

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Giving up your love is the most terrible betrayal, an eternal loss that cannot be compensated either in time or in eternity.

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We mourn for Lokomotiv, we feel sorry for the guys, but we were waiting for them in Minsk... Life is very unpredictable...

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Most main man my life is you, daddy, and no matter how old I get, I will always remain for you daddy’s little daughter, and you are my main man, no one can replace you. May you rest in peace.

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As soon as we lose faith in our strength, we lose ourselves. Statuses about the bitterness and pain of losing a loved one

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It is very painful and scary to lose loved ones, relatives, loved ones, but with each loss the feelings become dull and the heart becomes colder...

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We must pray for those who have gone into the dream world of silent silence. So that tears do not flow from heaven, for us... for sinners... they.

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They say that time heals... It seems to me that it simply tears out pieces of our memory, with blood...

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It hurts to look into your eyes and realize that you can’t help... It hurts to be there and know that this is the last night... When the doctor declares death... The pain from the loss of those closest to you is unbearable! ... There is no replacement for them!!!

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Damn... it’s so scary... you see a person, say hello to him... and a couple of days later they call you and say that he’s no longer there... Scary...

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When he dies close person, there comes a feeling that you have lost a part of yourself.

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Don't try to avoid painful experiences. Don't hold back your tears. What happened is a real tragedy. It must be felt, experienced.

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The memory of the deceased can become an incentive for further life.

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Only when we lose do we begin to appreciate... only when we are late do we learn to hurry... Only by not loving can we let go... Only by seeing death do we learn to live...

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Somehow I came to terms with fate... there were two of us... and you were alone there. We stocked up on a pound of salt with you... now my son and I eat it...

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Life is too short to have time to understand its meaning, death comes too quickly without having time to understand that there is only one life given.

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This status is for all those who once foolishly lost their soulmate and, because of pride, missed the moment when they could get them back.

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How to relieve the pain when a loved one leaves where there is no way back???

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Do you know why people look at the sky when it hurts them? So they try to hold back their tears...

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It's sad when people die!!! It’s even worse when the scum that killed them is still alive!!!

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Talk about the past in the past tense.

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I have a lot to do today: I need to completely kill my memory, I need my soul to petrify, I need to learn to live again.
Anna Akhmatova.

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And I burned everything that I worshiped, I worshiped everything that I burned.

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How often, for the sake of fidelity, you are tormented by loneliness, your love is not needed by the dead, your love is needed by the living.

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Loss of illusions - is it a profit or a loss?

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The worst thing is to lose what you believed in, hoped for, and then bam! and a black hole formed inside.

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The person cannot accept the loss. He experiences shock, which manifests itself in complete absence feelings.

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It’s just... periodically... it happens... your messages and voice are not enough... I ask... don’t forget me... gradually turning into the past...

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What heart can bear it??? All the pain and sorrow cannot be expressed in words. No one can love like a mother. How painful it is to lose your mommy.

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Departed feelings can still return, but a departed loved one never does.

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When one person dies, it is a sad loss, but the death of millions of souls is a statistic.

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A person can come to terms with the thought of his own death, but not with the absence of those he loves.

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The highest wisdom is in accepting death. It is important to understand that life does not end. We are all immortal. Our death is a tragedy only for our loved ones. - Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

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You left the pain in my heart forever! Gone from this life forever! Dear, sweet and gentle, my beloved mother!

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I can’t live without you... My heart cries and my soul groans... I, too, my dear, have “GONE” from life.

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I recognize you... in the touch of a birch branch, I recognize you... in the river with seething water, I recognize you... in the dew that looks like tears, I know darling!!! you are next to me.

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You may be 14, 20, 30, 42, 50... You will still cry when dear people leave.

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Getting attached to a person is a huge risk; when they leave, they take your soul with them.

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Those who have known the sadness of loss appreciate the joy of what is found.

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I love and remember. We remember those who left us, We remember those who closed their beloved eyes forever.

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Getting out of depression gradually becomes possible, heartache gets smaller. A person begins to look for ways to solve psychological problems that are not related to loss.

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Nobody dies too early, everyone dies on time.

Statuses about the bitterness and pain of losing a loved one


Be courageous and calm, since all human aspirations are insignificant from the point of view of eternity. There is no memory and pain in the oblivion of the grave.
Aurelius Marcus Antoninus

In essence, it doesn’t matter what you die for; but if you die for something you love, then such a warm, faithful death is better than a cold, unfaithful life.
Heine Heinrich

Dying is nothing new in this life,
But life, of course, is not newer.

Yesenin Sergey Alexandrovich

Is joy possible in life when day and night you have to think that death awaits you...
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Everyone knows that death is inevitable, but since it is not close, no one thinks about it.
Aristotle

Everything created is subject to the law of destruction. Achieve your goals through non-promiscuity.
Buddha Gautama Shakyamuni

Everything that seems mortal is just a shell. Life is immortal, and the body is only a cover that gives it an apparent mortality when breathing becomes inactive.
Inayat Khan Hidayat

Everything constructed is subject to disappearance. Try hard!
Buddha Gautama Shakyamuni

For each of us the world disappears with his own death.
Freud Sigmund

If you want to be able to endure life, prepare for death.
Freud Sigmund

What a pity is the old man who, during such a long life, could not learn to despise death!
Cicero Marcus Tullius

The life of the dead continues in the memory of the living.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

Concerns about the burial, the arrangement of the tomb, the pomp of the funeral - all this is more likely to console the living than to help the dead.
Augustine Aurelius

This body is worn out, a nest of diseases, mortal. This putrid heap is decomposing, for life has an end - death.
Buddha Gautama Shakyamuni

How can we know what death is when we do not yet know what life is?
Confucius

No matter how terrible war is, it still reveals the spiritual greatness of a person who challenges his strongest hereditary enemy - death.
Heine Heinrich

When we die, every single one of us
We realize that we know nothing.
Avicenna

When I die, a lot of rubbish will be placed on my grave, but the wind of time will mercilessly sweep it away.
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich

When I die, bury me and write on the monument: “Died of disgust.”
Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna

He who is constantly with the sick, who faithfully serves him, dies sooner.
Ovid

He who fears death no longer lives.
Zeime Johann Gottfried

Death itself is less painful than waiting for it.
Ovid

The thought of death is more cruel than death itself.
Boethius

Don't be afraid of death, then you'll probably beat him. Two deaths cannot happen, but one cannot be avoided.
Suvorov Alexander Vasilievich

Don't get upset and give up on life. But if life has left you, you should be upset.
Jobs Steve

It is not the one who has died that you should mourn, but the one who is born for a difficult struggle with the adversities of life.
Euripides

The equanimity that those sentenced to death sometimes show, as well as the contempt for death, only speaks of the fear of looking it straight in the eyes; therefore, it can be said that both are for their minds like a blindfold for their eyes.
La Rochefoucauld Francois de

Few people are given the ability to comprehend what death is; in most cases, it is not done out of deliberate intention, but out of stupidity and established custom, and people most often die because they cannot resist death.
La Rochefoucauld Francois de

Neither the sun nor death should be looked at point-blank.
La Rochefoucauld Francois de

No one knows what death is and whether it is not the greatest good for a person. And yet, everyone fears her, as if in the consciousness that she is the greatest evil.
Plato

No one can escape death.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

One death is a tragedy, a million deaths are statistics...
Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich

He will die from the expansion of his fantasy.
Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna

From black dust to celestial bodies
I discerned the secrets of the wisest words and deeds.
I avoided deceit, untangled all the knots,
Only I could not unravel the knot of death.
Avicenna

The memory that I will soon die is the most important tool which helps me accept complex solutions in my life. Because everything else - other people's opinions, all this pride, all this fear of embarrassment or failure - all these things fall in the face of death, leaving only what is really important. Memory of death - best way avoid thinking that you have something to lose. You are already naked. You no longer have any reason not to follow your heart.
Jobs Steve

The first sign of the beginning of knowledge is the desire to die. This life seems unbearable, the other seems unattainable. You are no longer ashamed that you want to die; you ask to be transferred from the old cell, which you hate, to the new one, which you are just beginning to hate. There is also a remnant of faith that during the journey the chief will accidentally pass along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: “Don’t lock this one up anymore. I'm taking him with me."
Kafka Franz

Since we do not know what death is, it is illogical to be afraid of it.
Socrates

The path to the underworld is the same from everywhere.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

The best thing for a person is not to be born at all, and after that the best thing is to die as soon as possible.
Cicero Marcus Tullius

The death of a loved one can stir up a person's entire past.
Freud Sigmund

Death smiles in our faces, all we have to do is smile back at it.
: Aurelius Marcus Antoninus

Death has nothing to do with us - when we exist, it does not exist; when it exists, we no longer exist.
Aurelius Marcus Antoninus

Death before us is something like a picture on the wall of a classroom depicting the battle of Alexander the Great. The whole point is to overshadow the picture with your actions in this life or completely extinguish it.
Kafka Franz

Death is terrible, but even more terrible would be the knowledge that you will live forever and never die.
Chekhov Anton Pavlovich

Death is probably the most better invention Life. She is the cause of change. She clears away the old to make way for the new.
Jobs Steve

Old age is just disgusting. I believe it is ignorance of God when he allows people to live to old age. Lord, everyone has already left, but I still live. Birman died too, and I never expected this from her. It’s scary when you’re eighteen inside, when you admire beautiful music, poetry, painting, but it’s time for you, you haven’t managed to do anything, you’re just starting to live!
Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna

He is lying who claims that he is not afraid of death. Every person is afraid to die; this is the great law of sentient beings, without which all mortal beings would soon be destroyed.
Rousseau Jean-Jacques

Having learned the truth in the morning, you can die in the evening.
Confucius

I have learned to look at death as an old debt that must be paid sooner or later.
Einstein Albert

I'm setting off on my last journey. I take a huge leap into the darkness.
Hobbes Thomas

Let's drink to die with a smile. And let our enemies weep!

Because hope never dies. Never dies.

If a citizen has the right to life, he also has the right to choose not to live

The dead cannot hurt you. They don't hurt - except for the fact that you see your own death on their faces.

Don't imagine that death is ready to provide you with all the answers. I suspect that in itself it is terrible. You simply cease to exist, and there is no more life, there is no way to find out anything at all.


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Death is close enough that there is no need to fear life. (F. Nietzsche)

The most important thing in life is that you are not dead. (R. Serna)

Trying to live forever. So far it's working.

When someone dies, you feel guilty just for being alive. (V. Savchenko)

Nobody dies too early, everyone dies on time.


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We first understand death only when it takes someone we love. (Germaine de Stael)

The evil created by man does not disappear with his death. (Stephen King)

Instead of fearing the inevitable death, we should fear that we will be unprepared for its arrival.

They say that the day of death is the same as everyone else's, only shorter. (Dolan's Cadillac)

We will all die one day. Some lucky people will do this quickly and painlessly, but for most this process is as long and painful as talking to you. ("Clinic")


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Death is a magical miracle.

Death doesn't really exist, says Tyler. - We will become a legend. We will remain young forever.

We won't really die.

Either this Tyler gets me a job as a waiter, or he shoves a gun in my mouth and declares that in order to gain eternal life, you must first die.

It's easy to cry when you know that everyone you love will someday either leave you or die. The long-term probability of survival for any of us is zero.

(All quotes are from the book “Fight Club”)


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Death is rough and dirty. She comes with a whole bag of disgusting tools.

We will die! We're going to die now! Although wait a minute... listen... no, we're definitely going to die. (From the movie "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")

Just when I thought I was learning to live, I was learning to die. (Leonard Louis Levinson)

My mother always said that death is just a part of life. ("Forrest Gump")

Death is not at the opposite pole from life, but is hidden within life itself. (Haruki Murakami)


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The only completely safe life is death. (Krotov Ya.)

The fear of death is only the consciousness of the unresolved contradiction of life. (Leo Tolstoy)

For God there are no dead. (Anna Akhmatova)

The smartest thing in life is still death, for only it corrects all the mistakes and stupidities of life. (Klyuchevsky V. O.)

What love sows, death will reap - and this is our life. (Senkevich G.)


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We must love life more than the meaning of life. (Dostoevsky F. M.)

The love of life is inseparable from the fear of death.

The essence of human nature is movement. Complete rest means death. (Pascal B.)

A person comes from non-existence and goes into non-existence without understanding anything. (Chanyshev A.N.)

Only she is death, i.e. the thought of it takes you to an area of ​​thought where there is complete freedom and joy (L. N. Tolstoy)


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The bravest and most intelligent people are those who, under any plausible pretext, try not to think about death. (La Rochefoucauld)

How much does it take to preserve the memory of a person? Hours of work for a marble maker. (Alphonse Karr)

Neither the sun nor death should be looked at point-blank. (La Rochefoucauld)

Death is the only thing that is greater than the word that designates it. (Edmont Rostand)

When leaving for the next world, don’t forget to turn off this one. (Viktor Koval)


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The thought of death is more cruel than death itself. (M. Boethius)

Inaction is premature death. (Pierre Buast)

Dying is the last thing. (Yuri Rybnikov)

Things seem terribly durable when people die. (Joyce Kilmer)

Death is placed at the end of life so that it is more convenient to prepare for it. (Kozma Prutkov)


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Quotes about death. Sayings, aphorisms about death famous philosophers and thinkers.

Just as a well-spent day gives a peaceful sleep, so a well-lived life gives a peaceful death.

Better death than fatigue.

Whether you are afraid of death or not, it is always difficult to come to terms with it.

Life is a song, and its chorus is death.

Death is the best doctor on earth who has never had any unsuccessful cases.
author: Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Death is the most convenient moment to take a tax from the rich.
author: David Lloyd George

In this world, the only inevitable things are death and taxes.

If you don't want to be forgotten immediately after death, write things worth reading or do things worth writing about.
author: Benjamin Franklin

Life is eternity, death is only a moment.

It's not death that I'm afraid of. Oh no!
I'm afraid to disappear completely.


The old thing is death, but something new for everyone.
author: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

There is no death in the literary world, and the dead also interfere in our affairs and act together with us, just like the living.
author: Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich

Even the dead do not know what death is.
author: Ramon Gomez de la Serna

Sayings, aphorisms and quotes about the death of famous people in English with translation.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Nowadays it is possible to survive everything except death, and to make amends for everything except a good reputation.

Sayings, aphorisms and quotes about the death of famous people in Latin with translation.

Quis furor est atram arcessere mortem?
What madness is it to defy grim death?

Mors laborum ac miseriarum quies est.
Death is a rest from suffering and misfortune.

Homini necesse est mori.
Death for a person is inevitable.

Moriendum est omnibus.
Everyone must die.

A malis mors abducit, non a bonis.
Death removes (the unfortunate) from evils, but not from blessings.

Mortem effugere nemo potest.
No one can escape death. No one can escape death.

Omni aetati mors est communis.
Death is common to all ages.

Malam mortem non facit, nisi quod sequitur mortem.
Death is evil only because of what follows it. Lit.: What makes death evil is only what follows after death.

Curatio funeris, conditio sepulturae, pompa exsequiarum magis sunt vivorum solatia, quam subsidia mortuorum.
Concerns about the burial, the arrangement of the tomb, the pomp of the funeral - all this is more of a consolation to the living than a help to the dead.

Ipse jubet mortis te meminisse deus.
God himself commands you to remember death.

Honesta mors turpi vita potior.
An honorable death is better than a shameful life.

Mors immortalis.
Immortal death.

Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum, quandoquidem natur(a) animi mortalis habetur.
This means that death means nothing and does not matter to us at all, if the nature of the spirit must certainly be mortal.

Non longe esse quaerentibus mortem.
You don't have to go far to find death.

Quum sciamus nos morituros esse, quare non vivamus?
If we know that we are doomed to death, why don’t we now live for our own pleasure?

Cum moriar, medium solvar et inter opus.
I want death to overtake me in the midst of my labors.

Morsque minus poena quam mora mortis habet.
Death itself is less painful than waiting for it.

Occurrunt animo pereundi mille figurae, morsque minus poena quam mora mortis habet.
Death hovers before my eyes in a thousand images; Death is not as difficult as the anticipation of it.

Ossa quieta precor, tuta requiescit(a) in urn a, et sit humus cineri non onerosa tuo.
May your bones rest peacefully in the urn that contains them, and may the earth be light for your ashes (at the death of Tibullus).

Mors dolorum omnium et solutio est et finis, ultra quam mala nostra non exeant.
Death is the resolution and end of all sorrows, the limit beyond which our sorrows do not cross.

Nemo ad id sero venit, unde nunquam, cum semel venit, potuit reverti.
No one is late to come to a place from which he can never return, once he has gotten there. Wed: It's never too late to die.

Post mortem nihil est.
There is nothing after death.

In luctu atque miseriis mortem aerumnarum requiem, non cruciatum esse.
In sadness and misfortune, death is not torment, but peace from hardship.

Calcanda semel via leti.
Only once do you have to make the journey to death.

Certa finis vitae mortalibus astat.
The inevitable end awaits mortals.

Eheu fugaces, postume, postume, labuntur anni nec pi etas moram rugis et instanti senectae adferet indomitaeque morti.
O Posthumus! Posthumus! The years are pouring and sliding! With what prayer will we delay the coming of wrinkles and old age, the coming death that haunts mortals?

Mors aequo pulsat pede.
Death knocks on everyone's door (literally: with its foot) equally.

Mors et fugacem persequitur virum.
Death will overtake even those who flee from it. Wed: You can’t ride around death on a horse.

Mors spuria.
Imaginary death.

Mors vitae prodest.
Death plays into life's hands.

Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus.
Life has given nothing to mortals without great difficulty.

Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum.
Keep in mind that any day could be your last.

Omnes eodem cogimur.
We all come (gather) to the same place (the same place), that is, we die.

Non omnis moriar.
I won't die at all.

Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas regumque torres.
Pale death breaks with the same foot, into the huts of the poor and into the palaces of kings.

Pulvis et umbra sumus.
We are (merely) dust and shadow.

Sed omnes una manet nox, et calcanda semel via leti.
The same night awaits everyone, everyone will have to someday take the death path.

Nec mortem effugere quisquam nec amorem potest.
No one can hide from death and love.

Mors sola fatetur, quantula sint hominum corpuscula.
Death alone shows how insignificant the human body is.

Null (a) unquam de mort(e) hominis cunctatio longa (e)st.
No delay is too great when it comes to the death of a person. There is no need to rush when it comes to the death of a person.

Proinde, dum suppetit vita, enitamur ut mors quam paucissima quae abolere possit inveniat.
Let us try, while we are given life, so that death gets as little as possible of what it can destroy.

Nam utcumque in illis quo morbo finiuntur magnum ex ipsa necessitate solacium est.
The constant and great consolation in the death of people who have died from illness is its inevitability.

Qui vero posteros cogitant et memoriam sui operibus extendunt, his nulla mors non repentina est, ut quae semper inchoatum aliquid abrumpat.
Those who think about future generations and want to live in their works always die prematurely, because death always ends something they have begun.

A free person thinks about nothing so little as death, and his wisdom consists in thinking about life, and not about death.

Benedict Spinoza

We should not be afraid of death, but of empty life.

Bertolt Brecht

Art is always, without ceasing, occupied with two things. It relentlessly ponders death and relentlessly creates life.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

It’s amazing how beauty and death, joy and decay are necessary for each other and condition each other.

Hermann Hesse

For a highly organized mind, death is just an adventure.

JK Rowling

The fear of death is worse than death itself. After all, anyone who is afraid to suffer suffers from fear.

Giordano Bruno

Against the dark background that death creates, the delicate colors of life sparkle in all their purity.

George Santayana

Everyone is given the opportunity to go, climbing from peak to peak, and cooperate with nature in achieving obvious purpose life. The spiritual “I” of a person moves in eternity like a pendulum swinging between the periods of life and death. This “I” is the actor, and his many incarnations are the roles he plays.

To live without benefit is untimely death.

Anyone who doesn't believe in future life, dead to this one too.

The fear of death is of great importance in our inner experience: it haunts us like nothing else, constantly reminding us of itself with a certain “underground roar”, like a dormant volcano. It is a dark, disturbing presence lurking at the edge of consciousness.

Irwin Yalam

Without knowing what life is, is it possible to know death?

Confucius

The essence of any faith is that it gives life a meaning that is not destroyed by death.

Do not indulge in sin and do not be mad: why should you die at the wrong time?

Leonardo da Vinci

I prefer death to fatigue. I never get tired of serving others.

Leonardo da Vinci

Where I am, there is no death, where there is death, there is no me. Therefore death is nothing to me.

Lucretius

The gods have arranged it so that anyone can take our life, but no one is able to save us from death.

It is stupid to die out of fear of death.

True courage lies not in inviting death, but in fighting against adversity.

Has death come to you? She would be terrible if she could stay with you, but she either won’t appear or will soon be behind.

Death awaits everything: it is a law, not a punishment.

Only he is capable of great deeds who lives as if he were immortal.

Luc de Clapier de Vauvenargues

A hero is one who creates life in spite of death, who conquers death.

Maxim Gorky

Already being born, we are in the process of dying, and in the beginning there is an end.

Mark Manilius

Why should I be afraid if after death I either will not be unhappy or will be happy?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

How can the idea of ​​immortality arise if all people are mortal? Immortality is not an idea, but a sense of well-being of life.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

The feeling of immortality is an innate feeling, otherwise how could we live carelessly to the point of impossibility and insanely cruel, or sometimes give our short life for nothing to another.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin

The fear of death is simply the fear of the unknown into which it plunges us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Like the reflection of the moon on water, the life of mortals is fragile; Knowing this, continually do good.

Wisdom of Ancient India

Birth is that share of immortality and eternity that is allotted to a mortal being. This means that love is a desire for immortality.
People are sleeping; when they die, they wake up.

One of the features of youth is the conviction that you are immortal, and not in some unreal, abstract sense, but that you will literally never die!