Death Quotes

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Everything that gets born dies.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I hope to die in the saddle seat.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.