Death Philosophy Quotes

“There's no need to fear the oblivion after we're gone if we never cared about the oblivion that came before we were born. Cheer up. Death obsessing is for boozy existentialists and bad poets.”
― Tom Jokinen

“MICKEY: Aren't you afraid of dying?
FATHER: Why should I be afraid?
MICKEY: Oh! 'Cause you won't exist!
FATHER: So?
MICKEY: That thought doesn't terrify you?
FATHER: Who thinks about such nonsense?
Now I'm alive. When I'm dead, I'll
be dead.
MICKEY: I don't understand. Aren't you
frightened?
FATHER: Of what? I'll be unconscious.
MICKEY: Yeah, I know. But never to exist
again!
FATHER: How do you know?
MICKEY: Well, it certainly doesn't look
promising.
FATHER: Who knows what'll be?
I'll either be unconscious or I won't.
If not, I'll deal with it then. I'm
not gonna worry now about what's
gonna be when I'm unconscious.”
― Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters

“Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

“Death–it confirms that at the end of the day, this life
has only one purpose, an inevitable end. All those curiosities of infanthood, obsessions of adolescence, and ambitions of adulthood just spiral back into a womb of nothingness - Death.”
― K.Hari Kumar, Dakhma

“The only inevitable thing in this world is death. I won't go through my own death; I'll go through my own dying, but not my own “being dead.” Thus, death as I experience it is the death of other people. Death affects me as loss and grief. It reminds me of a page in an intriguing book that abruptly vanishes. And now that it's gone, my experience is all about nostalgia, a lack of it, loss, and sorrow. They say that learning to die is learning to philosophize; that is, you gain wisdom by realizing that there is nothing to fear from death and, therefore, nothing to fear from anything. As a result, you should focus on all the activities of living rather than on death because, to us, death is meaningless.”
― Asif Hossain, Serenade of Solitude

“Death is a natural occurrence. Nobody's life will last for ever. On the other hand, the idea of immortality and eternal life is absurd. In the event that you are the only person left, could living forever really be fulfilling? Is perpetual happiness satisfying if it blinds you to the complexity of life?”
― Asif Hossain, Veronica