Quotes About Death

The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that.

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

Throw off your grief, ' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

Stop your weeping. Grief is for the dead.

She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.

All my life I'd been a believing Christian. ... But that instant in the ER--the instant Annette [his wife] died--I seemed to feel my religious faith die

The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

I should have known he'd be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn't have known he'd be the death of me.

The death of a dreamer does not always bring about the death of his dreams.

When you know that illusion and transformation are no different from birth and death, then you may learn magic.

Those who glitter with the glory of the hummingbird meaning death

To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment.

No matter how ugly the manner in which a man dies, it's only the presence of a suffering human soul that is horrifying, once gone, what is left is only an object.

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?

Death is not the end! The exit for the world of mortals is the entrance to the world of immortals!

Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead.

I sensed more than recognized the sound of those skeletal knuckles on the door. I was too young for it to be Death, so it had to be his mother.