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
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.
- Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.
- Therisa Peimer
Taming Flame
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
- Gavin de Becker
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- George McGovern
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
- Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen
The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
- Virgil
You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. Love and loss, therefore, are linked.
- Donna Lynn Hope
Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.
Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.
- Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.
- Therisa Peimer
Taming Flame
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
- Gavin de Becker
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- George McGovern
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
- Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen
The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
- Virgil
You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. Love and loss, therefore, are linked.
- Donna Lynn Hope
Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.
Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.
It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.
- Sheridan Le Fanu
Carmilla
So wise so young, they say, do never live long.
Too pissed off to care, Aurelia interrupted him. "No, I will not wait just one moment!" Piercing him with her best scary stare, she said, "It surprises me that no one has pointed out your glaringly obvious agenda, so let me be the first.
- Therisa Peimer
Taming Flame
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
- Gavin de Becker
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.
How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
- George McGovern
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
- Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen
The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.
We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselves any way we choose.
True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.
O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming.
- Virgil
You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.
I think anyone who opened their heart enough to love without restraint and subsequently were devastated by loss knows that in that moment you are forever changed; a apart of you is no longer whole. Some will never again love with that level of abandon where life is perceived as innocent and the threat of loss seems implausible. Love and loss, therefore, are linked.
- Donna Lynn Hope
Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.
Harry, you wonderful boy, you brave, brave man.
