Death Quotes

I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit.Now gone.Just gone.Like a chessboard where suddenly one of the knights disappeared. A blank spot on the board of life that could never truly be replaced because no two things were alike, no two beings alike.

~ Cheyenne Mccray

If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams.

~ Philip Nitschke

Psychologists have clinically observed that overly prolonged grief in the bereaved usually signifies a poor relationship with the one who died.

~ Robert E. Neale

Embryos think with each stage of their development that they have now reached the only condition that really suits them. This, they say, must certainly be their last, inasmuch as its close will be so great a shock that nothing can survive it. Every change is a shock; every shock is a pro tanto death. What we call death is only a shock great enough to destroy our power to recognize a past and a present as resembling one another.

~ Samuel Butler

To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

~ Tana French

With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.

~ Luke Taylor

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing in life was as ugly as death.

~ Graham Greene

He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.

~ Osamu Dazai

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

~ Idries Shah

YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about.

~ Terry Pratchett

In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.

~ Osamu Dazai

I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.

~ J.m. Coetzee

Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.

~ Benjamin R. Smith

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

~ Italian Proverb

All his life the example of a syllogism he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic - Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal - had seemed to him to be true only in relation to Caius the man, man in general, and it was quite justified , but he wasn't Caius and he wasn't man in general, and he had always been something quite, quite special apart from all other beings; he was Vanya, with Mama, with Papa, with Mitya and Volodya, with his toys and the coachman, with Nyanya, then with Katenka, with all the joys, sorrows, passions of childhood, boyhood, youth. Did Caius know the smell of the striped leather ball Vanya loved so much?: Did Caius kiss his mother's hand like that and did the silken folds of Caius's mother's dress rustle like that for him? Was Caius in love like that? Could Caius chair a session like that? And Caius is indeed mortal and it's right that he should die, but for me, Vanya, Ivan Ilych, with all my feelings and thoughts - for me it's quite different. And it cannot be that I should die. It would be too horrible.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Death was for-the other people.

~ Agatha Christie

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.

~ Sage Steadman

The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

~ Carrie Ryan

The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.

~ George Santayana

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.

~ Mitch Albom

Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will see. It's just that there are other ways to spend your time as a cadaver.

~ Mary Roach

Ah earth you old extinguisher.

~ Samuel Beckett

In the last moment of his life, he turned his fading flame of life into a huge fire that enveloped the world. I've never laughed more than on that day...!! I've never cried more than on that day... I've never drank more either..!! He was our captain... and he was a magnificent man...!!!

~ Rayleigh

Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.

~ Nenia Campbell

One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?

~ Graham Greene

Thank God,my name isn’t in the list of thosewho died or werekilled yesterday!

~ Suman Pokhrel

A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

~ Flann O'brien

The perfect being, huh? There is no such thing as perfect in this world. That may sound cliché, but it’s the truth. The average person admires perfection and seeks to obtain it. But, what’s the point of achieving perfection? There is none. Nothing. Not a single thing. I loathe perfection! If something is perfect, then there is nothing left. There is no room for imagination. No place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities. Do you know what that means? For scientists such as ourselves, perfection only brings despair. It is our job to create things more wonderful than anything before them, but never to obtain perfection. A scientist must be a person who finds ecstasy while suffering from that antimony. In short, the moment that foolishness left your mouth and reached my ears, you had already lost. Of course, that’s assuming you are a scientist

~ Tite Kubo

There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives.And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.

~ Brandon Sanderson

This is where the evening splits in half, Henry, love or death. Grab an end, pull hard, and make a wish.

~ Richard Siken

Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

There are a million things in this world that can end you, that can in one second obliterate the life you work so hard to keep alive. Our lives are structured around not dying. Eating, sleeping, looking both ways before you cross the street. It's all, all of it, to keep us safe from the thing that we know is going to get us anyway. It doesn't even make sense, if you think about it. It's the world's biggest joke. Our entire lives are set up around not dying, knowing all the while that it's the one thing we can't avoid.

~ Rebecca Serle

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

~ Téa Obreht

Those who live in memories are never really dead.

~ Kate Morton

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!This was the most unkindest cut of all

~ William Shakespeare

The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seaswhere we would dive for pearls. My lover’s wordswere shooting stars which fell to earth as kisseson these lips; my body now a softer rhymeto his, now echo, assonance; his toucha verb dancing in the centre of a noun.Some nights, I dreamed he’d written me, the beda page beneath his writer’s hands. Romanceand drama played by touch, by scent, by taste.In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on,dribbling their prose. My living laughing love -I hold him in the casket of my widow’s headas he held me upon that next best bed.

~ Carol Ann Duffy

And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been.

~ H. Rider Haggard

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

~ Dean Koontz

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

~ Janet Flanner