Quotes About Death

Kurt Vonnegut

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my task are done.

The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.

Life is eternal, and love is immortal, Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

Life goes on. What nonsense, I though, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

Life is more than just chess. Though king dies, life goes on.

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the Exponent of earth.

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal."

Native Americans say, "It's a good day to die," and samurai live their life to die honorably, so that kind of energy creates a certain mindset of re-activeness with control to a point. And after that, it's gone.

Generally speaking, the way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

…if you must steal, then steal away my sorrows, and if you must lie, then lie with me all the nights of my life. And if you must cheat, then please cheat death because I couldn't live a day without you."

At my age, I'm often asked if I'm frightened of death and my reply is always, I can't remember being frightened of birth.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.

Not even piety will stay wrinkles, nor the encroachments of age, nor the advance of death, which cannot be resisted.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

In all dying our ages are the same.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live; But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive: Discolour'd sickness, anxious labour, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

If you look more broadly at injury, so it includes also accidents, it's the largest cause of death in children of school age in Mexico. It's an enormous problem.