Quotes about death and parting

“Death lurks in the farewell of a true friend.”

“Naruto, it's nice that you removed the poison so spiritedly, but you'll bleed to death if you lose any more blood… Seriously….”

“And who is and should be a pessimist? He who is mature for death. He can love life so scarcely as he [the optimist] can depart from it. If he does not realize that he will survive in his children, his procreation loses its horrible character; but if he realizes it, he will recoil in horror from it, just like Humboldt noticing that it is paying dearly for a few minutes of pleasure with the torments that another being must endure perhaps for eighty years, and consider the procreation of children as a crime and justly so.”

“God died and His death was the life of the world.”

“The will must not only despise death, it must love it; for chastity is the love of death.”

“The kingdom of heaven after death, nirvana and absolute nothingness are one and the same.”

“The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.”

“Now through the vagaries of fortune, most of these 10.3 million Jews remained alive, so I say to myself: fate wished it so. I have to subordinate myself to fate and destiny. I am just a little man and don't have to fight against this, and I couldn't, and I don't want to.”

“Death is the greatest form of love.”

“If I wanted to kill somebody, I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing.”

“I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.”

“If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life”

“There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.”

“I went to collect the few personal belongings which… I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.”

“I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.”

“Big deal. Death always went with the territory. See you in Disneyland.”

“It is my duty to inform the Governments assembled in Geneva, responsible as they are for the lives of millions of men, women and children, of the deadly peril which threatens them, by describing to them the fate which has been suffered by Ethiopia.”

“Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.”

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”