Quotes About Death

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

No, it's not a 'corpse thing.' I feel I lack the emotional capacity to deal with those in mourning.

'Son of Saul' film is extremely emotional; you're watching people walk in, you're watching people die. It centers around a child that goes into the ovens but survives the gassing.

I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.

The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.

Equality is a mortuary word.

Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.

We must die to become true human beings.

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.

Look to your experience in dreams to know how you will fare in death. Look to your experience of sleep to discover whether or not you are truly awake.

There are people in the Himalayas who are thousands of years old. But that's just a power, you see. It would seem to me that would suggest a tremendous aversion to the experience of death.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.

If I lived a billion years more, in my body or yours, there's not a single experience on Earth that could ever be as good as being dead. Nothing.

I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

War is primarily not about victory or defeat but about death and the infliction of death. It represents the total failure of the human spirit.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

If the conversation people think is coming is the 'death panel' conversation, that's a total failure.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.