QUOTES ABOUT DEATH
Death is one of the few experiences that unites every human life, yet it remains deeply personal and profoundly mysterious. Across cultures, generations, and beliefs, writers, philosophers, and artists have tried to capture its meaning in words. The following quotes explore death from many angles—grief and acceptance, fear and peace, endings and new beginnings. ◀ Back
Would you guys choose to walk away from possibly the most incredible encounter of your lifetime just because you had to let it go sooner then you wanted? Just because you knew that it would never be?
- Holly Hood
Perfectly Hopeless
But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
- Alice Hoffman
The Dovekeepers
The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . .
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.
- R.C. Sproul
Surprised by Suffering
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
- Katharine Hepburn
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.
Who can be worried without the light of a memory?
- Sorin Cerin
Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I’d grow old with that we won’t have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?
- Nicole Ireland
A Second Chance
Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span...
Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second.
He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat."
I said, "You don't need to. I can see it in his eyes."
Dewey was gone.
- Vicki Myron
Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story
Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.
- Jindrich Styrsky
Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu
An honorable death is well and good, but if the life at stake is not your own, what then?
The sleeping pills in her pillowcase, the dark blank in her blanket, her purse lips purple; she disappears, she disappears. Her fears cuddle warm beside, to tears that went dry in the beat of her heart's drum. The strum, strum, stern in her veins, she breaks free finally floating to her lost rhythm of peace.
- Anthony Liccione
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.
- Adonais
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Let whoever can win glory before death.
The stronger civilization becomes, the more deeply the love of death is buried in the subconscious.
- Antal Szerb
Journey by Moonlight
I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference
between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the crappers
except for the luck of the draw -
parents with enough money to point you toward a more
generous death.
of course, some come through brilliantly, but
there are thousands, millions of others, bottled up, kept
from even the most minute chance to realize their potential.
Jail's are a spooky place," remarked Bill, trying to match the pace of detective Adam.
"Oh that is nothing in front of the ultimate fear" replied detective Adam.
"Ultimate fear?"
"Funny thing that, the ultimate fear is also the ultimate relief."
"Which is?"
"Death
- Rao Umar Javed
(Poetry) helped me to find a silver lining in even the darkest emotions, experiences, observations and topics; find positivity even in the face of extreme negativity; find strength when I was being forced to feel weak; and find hope that my tomorrows would be brighter.
- Following Whispers
Proceed With Awesome: A Poetic Voyage
Would you guys choose to walk away from possibly the most incredible encounter of your lifetime just because you had to let it go sooner then you wanted? Just because you knew that it would never be?
- Holly Hood
Perfectly Hopeless
But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
- Alice Hoffman
The Dovekeepers
The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . .
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.
- R.C. Sproul
Surprised by Suffering
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
- Katharine Hepburn
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.
Who can be worried without the light of a memory?
- Sorin Cerin
Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I’d grow old with that we won’t have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?
- Nicole Ireland
A Second Chance
Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span...
Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second.
He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat."
I said, "You don't need to. I can see it in his eyes."
Dewey was gone.
- Vicki Myron
Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story
Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.
- Jindrich Styrsky
Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu
An honorable death is well and good, but if the life at stake is not your own, what then?
The sleeping pills in her pillowcase, the dark blank in her blanket, her purse lips purple; she disappears, she disappears. Her fears cuddle warm beside, to tears that went dry in the beat of her heart's drum. The strum, strum, stern in her veins, she breaks free finally floating to her lost rhythm of peace.
- Anthony Liccione
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.
- Adonais
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Let whoever can win glory before death.
The stronger civilization becomes, the more deeply the love of death is buried in the subconscious.
- Antal Szerb
Journey by Moonlight
I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference
between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the crappers
except for the luck of the draw -
parents with enough money to point you toward a more
generous death.
of course, some come through brilliantly, but
there are thousands, millions of others, bottled up, kept
from even the most minute chance to realize their potential.
Jail's are a spooky place," remarked Bill, trying to match the pace of detective Adam.
"Oh that is nothing in front of the ultimate fear" replied detective Adam.
"Ultimate fear?"
"Funny thing that, the ultimate fear is also the ultimate relief."
"Which is?"
"Death
- Rao Umar Javed
(Poetry) helped me to find a silver lining in even the darkest emotions, experiences, observations and topics; find positivity even in the face of extreme negativity; find strength when I was being forced to feel weak; and find hope that my tomorrows would be brighter.
- Following Whispers
Proceed With Awesome: A Poetic Voyage
Would you guys choose to walk away from possibly the most incredible encounter of your lifetime just because you had to let it go sooner then you wanted? Just because you knew that it would never be?
- Holly Hood
Perfectly Hopeless
But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
- Alice Hoffman
The Dovekeepers
The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . .
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.
- R.C. Sproul
Surprised by Suffering
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
- Katharine Hepburn
You, why are you so afraid of war and slaughter? Even if all the rest of us drop and die around you, grappling for the ships, you’d run no risk of death: you lack the heart to last it out in combat—coward!
For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.
Who can be worried without the light of a memory?
- Sorin Cerin
Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
How am I going to tell the kids? How do I tell the man that I love, the man that I swore I’d grow old with that we won’t have that happy ending that he and I have worked so hard for? How do I say goodbye to all of you? How do I let go?
- Nicole Ireland
A Second Chance
Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span...
Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second.
He said, "I'll check for a heartbeat."
I said, "You don't need to. I can see it in his eyes."
Dewey was gone.
- Vicki Myron
Dewey the Library Cat: A True Story
Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.
- Jindrich Styrsky
Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu
An honorable death is well and good, but if the life at stake is not your own, what then?
The sleeping pills in her pillowcase, the dark blank in her blanket, her purse lips purple; she disappears, she disappears. Her fears cuddle warm beside, to tears that went dry in the beat of her heart's drum. The strum, strum, stern in her veins, she breaks free finally floating to her lost rhythm of peace.
- Anthony Liccione
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass
Stains the white radiance of Eternity,
Until Death tramples it to fragments.
- Adonais
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Let whoever can win glory before death.
The stronger civilization becomes, the more deeply the love of death is buried in the subconscious.
- Antal Szerb
Journey by Moonlight
I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much difference
between an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the crappers
except for the luck of the draw -
parents with enough money to point you toward a more
generous death.
of course, some come through brilliantly, but
there are thousands, millions of others, bottled up, kept
from even the most minute chance to realize their potential.
Jail's are a spooky place," remarked Bill, trying to match the pace of detective Adam.
"Oh that is nothing in front of the ultimate fear" replied detective Adam.
"Ultimate fear?"
"Funny thing that, the ultimate fear is also the ultimate relief."
"Which is?"
"Death
- Rao Umar Javed
(Poetry) helped me to find a silver lining in even the darkest emotions, experiences, observations and topics; find positivity even in the face of extreme negativity; find strength when I was being forced to feel weak; and find hope that my tomorrows would be brighter.
- Following Whispers
Proceed With Awesome: A Poetic Voyage
