Death Quotes

regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

~ Charles Bukowski

sometimes it's hard to knowwhat todo.

~ Charles Bukowski

I found the best thingI could dowas just to type awayat my own workand let the dyingdieas they always have.

~ Charles Bukowski

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.

~ Charles Bukowski

when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity ofmy city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have choked theheartaway.

~ Charles Bukowski

I didn't know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat are hardlysoand after he dies, well,then it's everybody'sparty.

~ Charles Bukowski

And in a mad tranceStrike with our spirit's knifeInvulnerable nothingsWe decayLike corpses in a charnelFear & GriefConvulse is & consume usDay by dayAnd cold hopes swarmLike worms withinOur living clay

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

I walk with a dual longing for life and for death.

~ Melissa Lee-Houghton

Objects and ObjectivesTo contemplate LEGO. Many colours. Many shapes. Many inventive and useful shapes. Plastic. A versatile and practical substance. Symbolic of the resourcefulness of man. Oil taken from the depths of the very earth. Distillation of said raw material. Chemical processes. Pollution. Creating a product providing hours of constructive play. For children all over the world. Teaching our young. Through enjoyment. Preparing them for further resourcefulness. The progress of our kind.A book. Many books. Proud liners of walls. Fingered. Taken out with great care. Held open. Gazed upon / into with something like awe. A medium for the recording of and communication of knowledge. From the many to the many. Down the ages. And of art. And of love. But do you hear the trees outside whispering? Do their voices haunt you? No wonder. They are calling for their brothers. Pulped. Pressed. Coated. Printed. Bound. And for their other brothers which made the shelves to hold them. And for the roof over them as well.From the very beginning - everything at cost. A cave man, to get food, had to deal with the killing. And the bones from one death proved very useful for implementing the death of another.

~ Jay Woodman

Scarring smiles, hidden tears,You stand, heads bowed and revereThe soul before us, burnt and tornHer faded essence, we sadly mournAnd though she walked a path of liesHer spirit surely still shall riseAnd among her own, she can be at peace An eternal angel, she’s been released.

~ Amelia Mysko

Welcome to thee,O sword of eternity!Through BuddhaAnd through Daruma alikeThou hast cleft thy way.

~ Kakuzō Okakura

Most things may never happen: this one will.

~ Philip Larkin

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

~ Tom Stoppard

For a merely conscious being, death is the cessation of experiences, in much the same way that birth is the beginning of experiences. Death cannot be contrary to an interest in continued life any more than birth could be in accordance with an interest in commencing life. To this extent, with merely conscious beings, birth and death cancel each other out; whereas with self-aware beings, the fact that one may desire to continue living means that death inflicts a loss for which the birth of another is insufficient compensation.

~ Peter Singer

I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox.

~ Michael Mcclung

Lots of people say that everything that we possess, experience and want; like books, music, films and holidays are all just a big distraction from death. But I think differently. I think it’s the exact order and presence of these trivial things that make life worthwhile and bearable.

~ Frieda Robson

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

~ Veronica Roth

An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.

~ Aniruddha Sastikar

Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly, without first having to lose one’s life.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- fails.

~ Myla Goldberg

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

~ Francis Marion Crawford

Death was in every fibre of these creatures. It was hidden in their languages and at the root of their civilizations. You could hear it in the sounds they made and see it in the way they moved. It darkened their pleasures and lightened their despair.

~ André Alexis

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

~ Franz Rosenzweig

And I put my hand on her arm to stop her rowing.Aaron’s Noise roars up in red and black.The current takes us on.“I’m sorry!” I cry as the river takes us away, my words ragged things torn from me, my chest pulled so tight I can’t barely breathe. “I’m sorry, Manch

~ Patrick Ness

It’s almost funny, in a tragic way, that the fiery thing at the center of my universe did die and that I, a girl whose name is synonymous with summer, am expected to live without it.

~ Emily Henry

I wasn’t dying alone. My beloved was dying with me.

~ Jannat Bhat

A fearful sob suddenly rises in my throat as I think of what it will be like without her, to not have her warm chest to lie against, to not have her kind face to look into, lost in a darkness without a mother to turn to and her here, daughterless.

~ Annie Fisher

If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain.

~ J.k. Rowling

People are not rain or snow or autumn leaves, they do not look beautiful when they fall.

~ Naveed A. Khan

I'm not going to lie to you and say it gets easier, because it doesn't. It's just that you get used to it. The human animal has an amazing capacity to get used to almost anything.

~ Andrea Speed

I will walk without noise and I will open the door in darkness and I will

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

People say that they want to kill me. All I say is I'm sorry but your appointment doesn't start until another hour, please sit in the waiting room.

~ Blackstar103

Broken doesn't mean we're valued any less, it just means we've loved someone so much and so fiercely that losing them feels like we've lost part of ourselves.

~ B.n. Toler

People don't like to talk about death because it makes them sad.

~ Colleen Hoover

I never fear death... for me it's only a new beginning.

~ Ili Ann

Don't be sad because I'm dying, be happy because very second another great human being is born, another person that ill have chances to do greater things than me.

~ Emma Claeys

This is me being sad.Maybe you think I'm being happy in this picture. Really I'm being sad but pretending I'm being happy. I'm doing that because I think people won't like me if I look sad.

~ Michael Rosen

In the distance, Amanda heard the sirens. Just a little bit longer. She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she was scared of dying before she had the chance to tell Ryker goodbye. In their capable hands, though, surely they could keep her alive long enough for him to return. They had to.

~ Rose Wynters

Death is beautiful, part of life... No, it is sad. It’s sad when anyone dies. Even though every single human dies. So it’s really not that sad.

~ Harris Wittels

I set down in a chair by the window and tried to think of something cheerful, but it warn't no use. I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead.

~ Mark Twain