Death Quotes

Reproduction is more pleasurable than death.

~ Herman E. Daly

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

~ William Shakespeare

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral—these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, “I loved him. We all loved him so much.” I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them.

~ David Levithan

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.]

~ Hector Berlioz

There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.

~ Steve Voake

The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.

~ Colleen Hoover

Susannah continued. If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan.

~ Jenny Han

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being, nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

~ Sun Tzu

My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.

~ Sarah Rees Brennan

Sunsets are loved because they vanish.Flowers are loved because they go.The dogs of the field and the cats of the kitchen are loved because soon they must depart.These are not the sole reasons, but at the heart of morning welcomes and afternoon laughters is the promise of farewell. In the gray muzzle of an old dog we see goodbye. In the tired face of an old friend we read long journeys beyond returns.

~ Ray Bradbury

A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves.

~ Caitlin Doughty

Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.

~ Teri Terry

Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.

~ Tsunetomo Yamamoto

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.

~ Carlos Castañeda

I was diamond on the outside, and I would not break.Inside, though, I was already broken.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

Nico found a sort of freedom in knowing that eventually, no matter what happened, he would end up at the foot of his father’s throne.

~ Rick Riordan

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

~ Zeena Schreck

Suppressing the fear of death makes it all the stronger. The point is only to know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that I and all other things now present will vanish, until this knowledge compels you to release them - to know it now as surely as if you had just fallen off the rim of the Grand Canyon. Indeed you were kicked off the edge of a precipice when you were born, and it's no help to cling to the rocks falling with you. If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

~ Alan W. Watts

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be neither separated, nor mixed.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.

~ Robert Fanney

Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

~ Markus Zusak

You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

In the middle of life, death comesto take your measurements. The visitis forgotten and life goes on. But the suitis being sewn on the sly.

~ Tomas Tranströmer

Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.

~ Ray Bradbury

I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

~ John Green

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

~ Stephen King

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

~ Ray Bradbury

But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kept him waiting before. . . . Sirius had risked everything, always, to see Harry, to help him. . . . If Sirius was not reappearing out of that archway when Harry was yelling for him as though his life depended on it, the only possible explanation was that he could not come back. . . . That he really was . . .

~ J.k. Rowling

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing.

~ Anderson Cooper

to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one’s departure from this world.

~ Paulo Coelho

So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.

~ Robin Mckinley

Cover her face, mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

~ John Webster

I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?

~ Jessica Maria Tuccelli

Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smile will never wrinkle, nor will that shine in your eyes fade..

~ Kendal Rob

We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.

~ Michael Cunningham