Quotes about death

“Men shout as they die, to be noticed, remembered for a second or two….You know a couple of useless things about a person that become major facts of identification and cosmic placement when he dies suddenly, after a short illness, in his own bed, with a comforter and matching pillows, on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, feverish, a little congested in the sinuses and chest, thinking about his dry cleaning.” – Murray

The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.

You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind.

Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced lifeforms, and they'll call you crazy.

Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.

"Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all."

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."

One must die lovable (if one can).

The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.

The weakness of the dying slanders life.

Not only the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

I have wondered why it is that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death than others.