Famous Quotes About death

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Love has no age, no limit and no death.

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.