Henry David Thoreau Quotes

From death's perspective, there are no differences between people; there are no presidents or flight attendants, no faiths or nations. There is just the person, always dear.

It doesn't matter what you believe in or where you're from. It doesn't matter what group you're in: we're all the same. We all end up in the same-sized box.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

All who have died are equal.

No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size When we turn off the light. Rich as a sultan, Poor as a mite, We're all worth the same When we turn off the light. Red, black or orange, Yellow or white, We all look the same When we turn off the light. So maybe the way, To make everything right Is for god to just reach out And turn off the light!

In greatness, life and death merge.

Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or María, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

I'm no different than you.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I'm not afraid of death at all.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.