Quotes About Death

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.

It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her.

As soon as one is born, one starts dying.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.

The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

Those who are afraid of death will carry it on their shoulders.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Death has an energy. It is thick as sludge, heavy as iron, and pulls you down into yourself like an imploding building.