Quotes About Death

But death is intimacy walking backward. We are crazed with grief when she, who once permitted us, leaves to us the only recollection.

I went into a lather of misery watching them, and thinking of you, and how in the end you'll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other that they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, head-on, eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin.

When a Jew dies on a Christian bosom he dies impaled.

Only the impossible lasts forever, with time, it is made accessible. Robin's love and mine was always impossible, and loving each other, we no longer love. Yet we love each other like death.

Oh, for God's sweet sake, couldn't you stand not learning your lesson? Because the lesson we learn is always by giving death and a sword to our lover.

You Know what none of us know until we have died. You were dead in the beginning.

Any man can look upon the head in death, but no man can look upon the feet.

Love is death, come upon with passion; I know, that is why love is wisdom. I love her as one condemned to it.

Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;

in the end you'll all be locked together, like the poor beasts that get their antlers mixed and are found dead that way, their heads fattened with a knowledge of each other they never wanted, having had to contemplate each other, head-on and eye to eye, until death; well, that will be you and Jenny and Robin.

Quando regaliamo una bambola a una bambina, le regaliamo la morte - è l'effige e il sudario; quando una donna la regala a una donna, è la vita che esse non possono avere, è la loro figlia, sacra e profana.»

Shvataš li šta je to po?i u rat? Ako se i vratim, ne?u biti onaj koji je otišao. Ja se, Natalija, ne bojim smrti, bojim se rata. Užasno se bojim rata.

Zato što mnogo, za vas nepojmljivo, volim život. - Ta vaša logika dubi na glavi, majore. - Ne, ne. ?ovek koji ne zaželi da umre, ne zna ni zašto živi. - Ja ne verujem da se živi za nešto što stane u re?. - Živi se sa nešto, ili zbog straha od smrti. Ili zbog jednog, ili zbog drugog.

A ?ovek umire jedino kad mora i kad ne?e.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Don't hate or fear to death because death is the only one who set us free from life's slavery...

When the time comes, the journey toward the brilliant white light that marks the barrier between this world and the next will not hold as much fear as it once would have. For in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life.

No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again.

Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin.

By then he would realize that the freedom he had always yearned for and never understood was beyond his or any man's reach, and that all men must yearn for it equally; a freedom from the society of mankind without its absence; a freedom from connection, from fear, from trouble, and above all from the loneliness of being alive. By then he would understand that fulfillment was only temporary, and desire the enemy of death.

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

How I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.