logo

Quotes About Death

Death was a quiet evil, unavoidable like the dark night and defenseless sleep and tearful sorrows. It had hunted her down and slithered close, wanting only to smother every last flicker of
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.
~ Unknown
Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death.
~ Anthony Liccione
What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?
~ Unknown
My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
No matter how careful we are, if we live long enough, eventually one of us will die. It is not a happy thought, but it is the truth. Such is the way of the world.
~ Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
It's a breath you took too late.It's a death that's worse than fate.
~ Elvis Costello
May your sleep be your death, and your wakefulness be your heaven.
~ Anthony Liccione
Death was a living creature. Death was a man tormented by his past. Death was once a human.
~ Unknown
They say when you meet somebody that looks just like you, you die.
~ P. Wish, The Doppelgänger
Don't Fear the Reaper.
~ Rae Hachton, Eternally
As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.
~ Paul Kalanithi
Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding.
~ Sunday Adelaja
I was planning a death, not a burglary, but in many ways that just made it easier. Taking a life was, in my experience, a damned sight less complicated than taking jewels from a hidden strongbox.
~ Unknown
A place with no handholds, no landmarks, no past at all:That would have been too much like dying
~ Margaret Atwood, Lady Oracle
We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases
~ Thomas Browne
Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives.
~ Unknown
Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.
~ Sara Quin
Until a seed falls to the ground and dies, it does not become a tree that later yields many fruits and multitude of seeds. We must embrace the thought of death for us to have greater lives.
~ Sunday Adelaja
You know, everything's a sort of lie, and then you die.
~ Arthur K. Flam
Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?
~ James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
In this world where I sit at my desk writing these words, people die, they pass on, people are mortal. In the cyber world we inhabit they do not.
~ Aysha Taryam
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
~ David Searls
Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi