Death Quotes

We never actively remember death,' Odenigbo said. The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

But he drank a lot. When love dies, he told me, there are no survivors.

~ Eion Colfer

They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.

~ John Hodge

Everyone's dying, Milcah. Some people are just dying sooner than others.

~ K.k. Hendin

Death descended like a theatrical storm over the Drakensberg Mountains, stranding me while it ran its course.

~ B.g. Bowers

The scariest thing about death is not dying, it's the uncertainty of what happens after

~ Peyton J Glenn

Differences disappear when faced with death.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

Mama wasn't dead...exactly. They all said she was, but when Elma was small, she seen Mama creep into her room at night, half-naked, head all bloodied red like when they found her by the well that day, and Elma reckoned dead just meant pretendin' you couldn't move or breathe until nightfall when you got up and walked around like you was free.

~ Shannon Celebi

I will not go back. No bad thing for me to die. I will make it happen so that it happens only once.

~ Shahrukh Husain

I die with the dying light, yet shine brighter as the darkness approaches. Soon I’ll be whittled to bone and stripped clean through, nothing left but a skeleton on which to hang a hat. But have no fear, I look good in hats.

~ Chila Woychik

This world rubs me raw, scours me smooth like an SOS pad put to a grease-caked skillet. And pain: it stabs and scrapes and pulls me back to earth, my final B&B, that worm-spun cot of cool black sod.

~ Chila Woychik

Not how he died, not what he died of, even less why he died, are of concern, to me, only the fact that he did die, he is dead, is important: the loss to me, to us

~ B.s. Johnson

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

~ Herta Müller

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

~ Molly Caldwell Crosby

My mother died of colon cancer one week after my eleventh birthday, and that fact has shaped my life. All that I have become and much that I have not become, I trace directly or indirectly to her death. ... In my professional and personal life, I have lived with the awareness of death's imminence for more than half a century, and labored in its constant presence for all but the first decade of that time.

~ Sherwin B. Nuland

You cannot conceive of the depths of my sorrow, Campbell Maria Cooper. Alicia brought her fist to her mouth and her other hand to the rail of the bed and took a deep breath before she continued. I will never be the same when you are gone. Things for me will be dim and gray and flat. But there is one thing that will keep me going, Campbell, and that is the belief in my connection to you. This thing. This crazy enmeshed love feeling that I have is real. Like this cup is real. Or this phone is real. And it will not just go away when you do. Okay? Wherever you are going, you will be connected to me by this thing, and you will never, ever be alone, okay? I want you to know that.

~ Wendy Wunder

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.

~ David Mitchell

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

~ P.c. Cast

In my opinion, anyone who says they have no anxiety at all over experiencing their own physical death is not in touch with their humanity.~R. Alan Woods [2012]

~ R. Alan Woods

There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.

~ R. Alan Woods

The feeling of death is not as peaceful as they make it sound in movies and books. It was frightening and empty...I never want to feel it again.

~ Shannon A. Thompson

I remembered screaming then, screaming until my voice stopped.

~ Ivy Devlin

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful.

~ Rae Hachton

A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one, and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.

~ Alan Bradley

A man dies and his skin loses heat like the sand on a summer evening. It makes you feel like warming him up.

~ Erri De Luca

In a fight to the death,I would in no doubt throw the fight.signed.....A pacifist

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Evan stares at me.I try to hug him. He takes a step back. I pause, my heart in my throat. I’ve got to reach out to him, let myself be vulnerable. I find the courage, but he backs up again.“You can’t go to Iraq anymore.”“I know.”He looks up at Deanna, then back to me. “Did you fight bad guys? You told me you weren’t.” His voice is suspicious, full of accusation. He doesn’t trust me, and I don’t blame him for that.“No, Evan. I didn’t fight bad guys.”I can’t bring myself to tell him the complete truth. I want so desperately to go back into this fight. I miss it every day. I always felt I could change the world with a rifle in my hands and our flag on my shoulder.“Did you get shot?” he looks me over, apparently searching for bullet wounds.I grin a little. “No, Bud, I didn’t get shot.”“People get shot in Iraq.”“Yes, they do.” It strikes me then that Evan for the first time has a grasp on the dangers that are faced over there. He’s six now, and the world is coming into focus for him.“People get shot, Daddy. They die. Bad guys kill them.”I think of Edward Iwan and Sean Sims.“Yeah, I know they do, Evan.

~ David Bellavia

Once they have dedicated themselves to a cause, women will fight to the end for it.

~ Sara Sheridan

I always remember your own grandmother, she continued, nodding her head, old Mrs. Taylor. She died on a Christmas Night.Oh, I said shivering. I wouldn't like to die on a Christmas Night. A good night to die, she smiled; they say that the gates of heaven are open on Christmas Night.

~ Alice Taylor

Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.

~ Solange Nicole

For him, behind every feeling and thought was the sense of the open door leading into nothingness. To be sure, he suffered from dread of many things, of madness, the police, insomnia, and also dread of death. But everything he dreaded he likewise desired and longed for at the same time. He was full of burning curiosity about suffering, destruction, persecution, madness and death.

~ Hermann Hesse

As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .

~ Emil M. Cioran

I prayed for death so as not to live in madness.

~ Andrew Krivak

Going insane would be worse than dying. At least death is clear and final

~ Rita Stradling

When he did think—when his brain began the slow chugging of rusty gears—the only thoughts that came were unspeakable things like, what’s the worst age a child can die? Worse yet was—after hours spent staring at the ceiling until it became a real-life Escher print with fans on the floor, useless windowsills, and dresser drawers that spilled underwear when opened—worse yet was when his mind found answers to those questions. Two-years-old isn’t so bad, he mused. They barely had a life. Twenty? At least they got to experience life! But fourteen... fourteen was the worst.

~ Jake Vander-Ark

If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.He will have nothing to live for.

~ James Edwin Gunn

Be kind to everyone, everyone is going through something

~ Mary Elizabeth Owens

Funerals, I had decided, are for the living.

~ John Green

Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson