Death Quotes

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

~ Brandon Sanderson

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

~ Dave Barry

I love the name of honor more than I fear death.

~ Gaius Julius Caesar

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.

~ Kristin Cast

This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

~ Virginia Woolf

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.

~ George W. Bush

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

~ Kathy Acker

...Matt. I didn't think they'd kill you... I'm so sorry...

~ Tsugumi Ohba

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

~ Twyla Tharp

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

~ Katherine Mansfield

Clearly God was in some kind of mood on my birthday.

~ Jodi Picoult

Nothing is ever truly gone... Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow. -Hem at Zelika's grave

~ Alison Croggon

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

~ Charles Bukowski

If the thing they were fighting for was important enough to die for then it was also important enough for them to be thinking about it in the last minutes of their lives. That stood to reason. Life is awfully important so if you've given it away you'd ought to think with all your mind in the last moments of your life about the thing you traded it for. So did all those kids die thinking of democracy and freedom and liberty and honor and the safety of the home and the stars and stripes forever? You're goddamn right they didn't.They died crying in their minds like little babies. They forgot the thing they were fighting for the things they were dying for. They thought about things a man can understand. They died yearning for the face of a friend. They died whimpering for the voice of a mother a father a wife a child They died with their hearts sick for one more look at the place where they were born please god just one more look. They died moaning and sighing for life. They knew what was important They knew that life was everything and they died with screams and sobs. They died with only one thought in their minds and that was I want to live I want to live I want to live.He ought to know. He was the nearest thing to a dead man on earth.

~ Dalton Trumbo

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

~ John Green

When I die,' I said to my friend, 'I'm not going to be embalmed. I'm going to be dipped.' Milk chocolate or bittersweet was the immediate concern.

~ Adrianne Marcus

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you.She essayed to smile again and expired.

~ Victor Hugo

You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.

~ Ernest Cline

I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel honored to have known them and blessed that their passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on this beautiful earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love. I can think of no greater way to honor the deceased than to live this way.

~ Steve Maraboli

Give me a meaningful love or a beautiful death!

~ Renee Ahdieh

Rest in Peace?’ Why that phrase? That’s the most ridiculous phrase I’ve ever heard! You die, and they say ‘Rest in Peace!’ …Why would one need to ‘rest’ when they’re dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d’Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I’m only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won’t need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on.

~ Roman Payne

We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.

~ Mary Roach

Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.

~ Philip K. Dick

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

~ Mario Puzo

Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time… what an absolute horror-inducing word

~ Rachel Van Dyken

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

~ Stephen King

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

~ Mark Twain

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

~ Nina Lacour

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...

~ Maurice Sendak

What mancan you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he isdying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed,Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.

~ Seneca

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.

~ Rosamund Lupton

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

~ Charlaine Harris

O weep for Adonis - He is dead. Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

~ Umberto Eco

When darkness falls and eyes stay shutA chain of voices opens up.Let wax not wane give breath to death.p.s. Shhh -Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)

~ Yvonne Woon

On the Death of his ChildDew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting

~ Kobayashi Issa

I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.

~ Jodi Picoult