Death Quotes

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death.

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Dance with me, Death, I am ready.

~ Terry Goodkind

Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature—but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end to their argument, we shall have none, not ever, until the end of all.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

If you wait for God to descend to earth and save youfrom your fuck ups, you will be waiting until youdrop dead.

~ Sheeja Jose

You learn to run by running.

~ Sheeja Jose

Life is like a dream, when you wake up,you only have memories.

~ Sheeja Jose

Perhaps it was a statement after all: I don’t want to die without knowing you. Do you feel the same way, Carol? She could have said the last question, but she could not have said all that went before it.

~ Patricia Highsmith

Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.

~ Michael Anthony

We understood it was possible to know things one was not supposed to know…” Lone Walk From Panther Creek.

~ Kat Kaelin

My dad was nothing but a bingo call.

~ Ripley Patton

Why did you laugh right before you lost consciousness.”“Death’s an adventure. I lived big. Rigor mortis makes your face stick. So, who knew how to thaw me?”“Death’s an insult.”“At least an affront,” I agree.

~ Karen Marie Moning

It's you,” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot follow you.

~ Annie Fisher

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.


~ Dark Jar Tin Zoo

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~ Ally Condie

If I died, I’d expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I’d haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I’d haunt the girl.

~ Gena Showalter

Who was this girl alone so late at nightin search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time’s intrusion? Those eyes belonged to the most beautiful maniac I’ve ever met. Our love is a vine of entrails that can follow any coffin anywhere, no matter how deep any gravedigger might travel.

~ Nicholaus Patnaude

I’ve always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event.” “Why would you ever think that?

~ Grace Draven

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor...When I say this, it should mean laughter,not poison.

~ Richard Siken

She is bending over her child. She can’t leave her. Thechild is laid out in state on a table. She wants to take one more photograph of the child, probably the last. In life, the child would never sit still for a photograph. She says to herself, “I’m going to get the camera,” as if saying to the child, “Don’t move.

~ Lydia Davis

Harry... take my body back, will you? Take my body back to my parents...

~ J.k. Rowling

One day I shall leave the world,And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes,In my words, you can rummage me!

~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

Legend has it that while drinking wine in a boat on the river, [8th century Chinese poet Li Po] tried to grab the moon's reflection on the surface and tumbled in, which is probably the poet's equivalent of dying bravely in battle.

~ Matthew White

Society tells my students that people like them should aspire to prison the same way I understood I would go to college. They only listen to media that reinforces what they’ve been told all their lives: that they are worthless and that they will die or be incarcerated before they reach twenty-five.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Death is but a doorway to another path.

~ Joyce Lavene

He looked upon this verdant, blossoming spring, a spring Joanna would never see, he looked upon a field of brilliant blue flowers- the bluebells Joanna had so loved- and at that moment he'd willingly have bartered all his tomorrows for but one yesterday.

~ Sharon Kay Penman

Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind, as are the legacies of those who flow with them.

~ Criss Jami

Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

~ Chris Campanioni

Hoffland, as it was called, was, next to Moda Polska (simply “Polish Fashion”) one of the rare examples of the quasi-private, though officially nationalized fashion companies in Poland. Both have survived communism, and Hoff kept designing well into the 90s. You could be sure, that if Hoff wrote about a new style for wearing a shawl in her column, the same afternoon there would already be dozens of girls on the streets trying to copy this style. Her flagship idea was blackening the “coffin shoes” (i.e. light, paper shoes, used as footwear for the deceased) which when colored black could pass as elegant “ballerinas”.

~ Agata Pyzik

Once lively peonies nowwind-weary, and ragged at the edges, hang their heavy crowns; rain on their backs,one final act, beforedetaching from the stemand falling down.

~ Kristen Henderson

They buried him in dirt that smelled like broken batteries, and crouched in a fiberglass shed while the acid rain poured down to dissolve his flesh and bleach his bones.

~ Dan Wells

Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.

~ Anthony Burgess

Inside her it was as if death didn’t exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal.

~ Clarice Lispector

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

~ Richard Baxter

I wanted my eternity in carbon molecules, in being part of the trees, the sky, air itself

~ Ruth Ahmed

I'm seventeen. Seems like I only blinked and here I am. I'm speeding like a rocket toward death. I'm spiraling toward the end of now and the start of infinity. It's a countdown. But to what? Can't gift wrap eternity.

~ Jackie Lea Sommers

IT's not death. It's eternal life. And you get't'be yourself. Compared to that, this world isn't but a momentary fantasy. Please don't forget that.

~ Haruki Murakami

The Moon did not consider that amongst the stars, there is no end. There is no fading away. There is no death in a place filled with forever, even though we all trick ourselves into thinking that this life we live now is the only life we will ever live.

~ Paul The Astronaut

All I can tell you is that at the end, there's nothing left but love.

~ Bruce Lee Bond

Long after you have reached the end of your natural span, part of you will dwell within me . . . as I shall be in you to the last of your days and even after.

~ Bruce Lee Bond

The inside of the Trace Italian, of course, does not exist. A player can get close enough to see it: it shines in the new deserts of Kansas, gleaming in the sun or starkly rising from the winter cold. The rock walls that protect it meet in points around it, one giving way to another, for days on end. But the dungeons into which you'll fall as you work through the pathways to its gates number in the low hundreds, and if you actually get into the entry hall, there are a few hundred more sub-dungeons before you'll actually reach somewhere that's truly safe. Technically, it's possible to get to the last room in the final chamber of the Trace Italian, but no one will ever do it. No one will ever live that long.

~ John Darnielle