Death Quotes

There is nothing to lose in this life. Naked I came from mother’s womb and naked will I go into the grave.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you know where the dead spirits depart to?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a spiritual breath.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When life comes to an end, we will take nothing with us.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The external rest comes unexpected.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a great mystery.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Live each day as if life can end any time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God has given every man, 120 years of life on earth. It yours to possess.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Affirm and acclaim 120 years of blessed life from the Creator.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a long travel. The end of the journey is often unpredictable.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The graveyard is the everlasting home of every man.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We came us spirit into the world. We shall depart us spirit out of the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everything is only a transition

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

May you find comfort and peace in every situation.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Now, as they pressured perfect footprints into the snow that had been accumulating all day, his father took Harry's hand.Heshele, how are you?OK, I guess.Are you very sad?I don't know. I know I should be. But what does it mean to be sad?His father stopped. He cupped his free hand to let the snow gather. It quickly turned from an inviting white coating to black-specked gray water.Sadness is in my hand. In a second, a thing of beauty becomes dirty water; innocence leaves a child's eyes; he who strived for immortality lies forgotten under weeds. Sad is missing the love that death has sealed in the ground or that life has denied life to.Then I'm sad. When you took my hand, I remembered how he took my hand when we went to the pier to fish. And I thought: That will never happen again. And then I thought: Up until now I never understood the word never, and there was a lump in my throat.

~ Amram Ducovny

It was hard to know what to make of the brothers' dark infatuation with death. It was strange, wildly anomalous in sun-baked Southern California, where the light is so bright it bleaches the shadows.

~ Peter Biskind

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally. The further we push aloneness away, the less are we able to cope with it, and the more terrifying it gets. Some philosophers believe that loneliness is the only true feeling there is. We live orphaned on a tiny rock in the immense vastness of space, with no hint of even the simplest form of life anywhere around us for billions upon billions of miles, alone beyond all imagining. We live locked in our own heads and can never entirely know the experience of another person. Even if we're surrounded by family and friends, we journey into death completely alone.

~ Michael Finkel

And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.

~ Suzy Kassem

My mother likes odd numbers and is suspicious of the even ones. She reads a new book every week and is bewitched by black holes in the universe. She describes herself as an optimist but she worries about everything—worries incessantly—worries on behalf of others when she feels they are not worrying adequately for themselves.And my mother misses her own mother, my grandmother, immensely, who only has a past now; who is only allowed to be as we remember her.

~ Sara Baume

There are a world of answers, outside the loop.

~ Anthony Liccione

ilet myselfknowthat my lifedoesn'thave to be overjust becausetheirs are& i wentahead& paintedthe sunback into my sky.I am allowed to live my life.

~ Amanda Lovelace

My sister lived in the moment. She said she would love the summer only when it came and warmed her. But I lived and still live in the future. Where it’s warm when it’s cold. Where dreams are not yet reality. Where the sad people are happy. The only problem with living in the future is that everyone has died, including yourself. So your plans are fiction and your predictions are fantasy. Living in the future is pure fantasy. I think that’s why I love it so dearly.

~ F.k. Preston

Once people knew about the cancer, I wouldn't be able to stop them from talking about Val every time they saw me. And then I would stop being me, because my time was something I could only buy at home.

~ Melanie Conklin

Oh, I'm not worried about him,' returned Bill. 'He's gone. It's not any more complicated than that. Honestly, if I admit it, it's me that I feel bad for.' He walked away from me and looked out toward the south. 'There's nothing like having a parent die to make you realize how alone you are in the world,' he added.

~ Hope Jahren

All their lives Nath had understood, better than anyone, the lexicon of their family, the things they could never truly explain to outsiders: that a book or a dress meant more than something to read or something to wear; that attention came with expectations that—like snow—drifted and settled and crushed you with their weight.

~ Celeste Ng

Death can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up at night. But we’ve also learned the things that death cannot do. It cannot crush our hopes. It cannot take away the love and support of our friends and family.

~ John Corey Whaley

The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.

~ Ruta Sepetys

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

1. “Someday there will be a woman-one who takes your breath away. You won’t be afraid of commitment, you’ll be afraid of living without her. That’s when you’ll know. She'll be your reason to exist. You’ll want to move heaven and earth to make her happy and see her smiling face. God help you then. He’s the only one who can.

~ Liv Morris

Mom hadn't met Ramon; her advocacy was more arm's length - petitions, the website, letter writing, meetings with politicians. Her friend Hanna had formed a close friendship with Ramon though, visiting him as often as she could. Hanna told me that Ramon's greatest regret was that he wouldn't get to see his daughter grow up.And Jeremy's dad, who had that opportunity, was just throwing it away.It made me furious, and I couldn't let it go.

~ Robin Stevenson

Life's a battlefield, and we remain loyal to those who fight for us; those who'd die for us.

~ Crystal Woods

I haven’t been able to pray with the same unquestioned simplicity of hope since Dustin passed. My childhood ended the day my brother died. The naive hope that a miracle would save him, that he would one day walk, that a disease was a blessing in my family – that hope died with him.

~ Darcy Leech

Family will always kill you -- some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it.

~ Tiphanie Yanique

---Sleeps through the washes of the morning's colors and the warm brilliance of sunrise. She sleeps in a world where she remembers, perfectly, every detail about her husband, this day, that sentence, another touch. She will remember it all in the deepest sleep, and lose it again the moment her eyes open and she wonders how late it must be for the sun to already be so high and then remembers, in the next instant, what happened the day before.

~ Ashley Hay

Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together? she asked. Don't you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?Wouldn't it be great if it did? I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn't about avoiding suffering.

~ Paul Kalanithi

To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.

~ Matt Haig

The way you remember or dream about your loved ones - the ones who are gone - you can't stop their endings from jumping ahead of the rest of their stories. You don't get to choose the chronology of what you dream, or the order of events in which you remember someone. In your mind - in your dreams, in your memories - sometimes the story begins with the epilogue.

~ John Irving

He took a deep breath in, still managing himself as if he were resisting temptation. He was a soldier, his father was in the service, too. Crying wasn't something Morell men did. They just didn't. He hadn't cried at Robbie Morell's funeral.So he wasn't going to now.

~ Luke Taylor