Death and Mourning

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

The relatives of a suicide always take it in bad part that he did not remain alive out of consideration for the family dignity.

To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

In practice it is death that works so seductively behind the image of its brother, sleep

The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Some men are born posthumously.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

The final reward of the dead - to die no more

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

The man consummating his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making solmn vows, thus one should learn to die.Friedrich Nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

The true tomb of the dead is the heart of the living.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

No one ever dies an atheist.

Must not all things at last be swallowed up in Death?

It is only the dead who have seen the end of war.