Death Quotes

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

~ Ray Bradbury

The other mammoths were as protective of the dying as they were of newborns, and they gathered around tying to make the fallen one get up. When all was over, they buried the dead ancestor under piles of dirt, grass, leaves, or snow. Mammoths were even known to bury other dead animals, including humans.

~ Jean M. Auel

We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off.

~ Siri Hustvedt

He comes down next to me, and when I hold out my hand, he takes it. Our fingers lace together. And in that feeling, that perfect feeling of our hands and fingers pressed together, I want to tell him everything. I want to tell him about Josh, and his sister, Emily. I want to tell him about tall, crazy Gert. I want to tell him about bridges and funerals, and most of all, maps. More than anything else, I want to tell him about myself. I want to tell him that I know what things look like from above now. There's so much I want to tell him, because I know he'll understand.

~ Shawn Klomparens

It was a mistake to think of houses, old houses, as being empty. They were filled with memories, with the faded echoes of voices. Drops of tears, drops of blood, the ring of laughter, the edge of tempers that had ebbed and flowed between the walls, into the walls, over the years.Wasn't it, after all, a kind of life?And there were houses, he knew it, that breathed. They carried in their wood and stone, their brick and mortar a kind of ego that was nearly, very nearly, human.

~ Nora Roberts

Մահ ոչ իմացեալ՝ մահ է, մահ իմացեալ՝ անմահութիւն է:Death, unanticipated, is death; death, anticipated, is immortality.

~ Saint Vardapet Eghishē

One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me before the life was ended, the doctor drew the poison from my stomach with a syringe, and when I woke, it was to the sound of my own weeping. For I had hoped to open my eyes on Heaven, where my father was; and they had only pulled me back to Hell.

~ Sarah Waters

He dreamed of funeral love, but dreams crumble and the tomb abides

~ Gustave Flaubert

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio

~ Gabriel García Márquez

The dead has only one place to go… up. Wherever you bury them, they will go the same way, up

~ Abdul Sattar Edhi

They suffered with his death and she - she suffered with their reaction to it.

~ Haidji

My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”I exploded:“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

~ Elie Wiesel

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

~ Haruki Murakami

What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.

~ Carrie Jones

That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.

~ Lev Grossman

You and I have a connection that nothing, not on heaven or earth, or even hell, could ever break. If you want to talk to me, talk to me. I’ll hear you…

~ Cynthia Hand

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

~ Mira Grant

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

~ Clifford D. Simak

The person whom you really, really love may not be here anymore. And you might be feeling lonely, but, there are people in this world who really, really love you, so shouldn't that equal it all out? So, please don't ever think that you're alone. I'll be watching over you. I'll always be watching over you. I promise to always watch over you. You're not alone.

~ Yuuki Obata

poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you

~ Walt Whitman

I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward.

~ Albert Borris

There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.

~ Richard Adams

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.

~ Julio Cortázar

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.

~ John Gunther

She cannot possibly be dead, people do not just die

~ John Green

His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.

~ Ravi Zacharias

I'm going to get 'I'M NOT FUCKING DEAD' tattooed on my chest.That will become inaccurate at some point, Omar pointed out.

~ Domashita Romero

Dreams link us to those who have already left this life.

~ Doug Dillon

It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.

~ David Wroblewski

Death is a lot like prom - loud, overdone, and although the guy you came with was cool, you never know who'll end up taking you home.

~ Cecily White

Everything but a life can be replaced.

~ Marty Rubin

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

~ Walter Scott

Kill you all! The clown was laughing and screaming. Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

~ Stephen King

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short.

~ Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

~ C.s. Lewis

Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.

~ Martine Leavitt