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

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, devoted 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 failed to learn to despise death during such a long life!
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 eye; 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

Remembering that I will die soon is the most important tool that helps me make difficult decisions 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. Remembering death is the best way to 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 best invention of 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 that 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 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

Quotes about death. Statements, aphorisms about the death of 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.

If man is only a bodily being, then death is the end of something so insignificant that it is not worth regretting. If a person is a spiritual being and the soul is only temporarily in the body, then death is only a change.

It is necessary to bring life and death together so that life has some of the solemnity and incomprehensibility of death, and death is part of the simplicity and ordinariness of life.

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.

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

It is better to die without thinking about death than to think about it, even when it does not threaten.

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 started.

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I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there.
Woody Allen

Yes, man is mortal, but that would not be so bad. The bad thing is that he is sometimes suddenly mortal.
Michael Bulgakov

At a funeral, the thing that bothers everyone the most is the deceased, but it is difficult to do without him.
Arkady Davidovich

Dying today is scary, but someday it will be nothing.
Vladimir Dal

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

Only the dead can speak about death knowledgeably.
Leszek Kumor

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

The death of one person is death; the death of two million is just a statistic.
Erich Maria Remarque

Death, of course, is a great misfortune, but still not the greatest, if you choose between it and immortality.
Tom Stoppard

After all, what is death? Death, dear comrades, is the most interesting adventure we will experience in life.
Arkady Strugatsky
(It’s funny, but a very similar statement was found
and in Rowling's Harry Potter book. - Approx. ed.)

Lucky is the person who manages to leave this world alive.
William Claude Fields

A person dies when he stops changing, and a funeral is just a formality.
Henry Ford

A person can only die once. And if he dies earlier, it means he will be dead a little longer, that’s all.
Mariusz Szczygiel

Death is simply the result of improper education.
Umberto Eco

Being prepared to die is good form.

Valeria Novodvorskaya

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

Death turns life into destiny.

Andre Maurois

I wouldn't want to die suddenly. It's like leaving a restaurant without paying.
Innokenty Annensky

Rumors about my death are somewhat exaggerated.
You know perfectly well who said it without any clues.

If you don't go to other people's funerals, they won't come to yours.
Clarence Day

Millions of people dream about immortality - the same ones who agonize over what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday evening.
Susan Ertz

According to sociologists, the biggest horror for people is the fear of public speaking. Number two is death. It follows that when you go to a funeral, it is better to lie in a coffin than to give a speech next to it!
Jerry Seinfeld

Nobody knows when the person was supposed to die. Then why does everyone say “he suffered an untimely death”?
George Carlin

My uncle was a rare troublemaker. He even wrote on his tombstone: “Why are you staring?”
Margaret Smith

Death's Disciple: "My grandmother says that dying is like falling asleep."
Death: I can’t say anything about this. I haven’t tried either one.”
Terry Pratchett

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.

Joanne 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

Each is given the opportunity to go from peak to peak and cooperate with nature in achieving the obvious purpose of 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 does not believe in the Hereafter is dead to this life.

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.

Maksim 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!