Quotes About Death

Certain women of a lymphatic temperament will pretend to have the spleen and will even feign death, if they can only gain thereby the benefit of a secret divorce.

At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. That is what makes the life I have now possible. Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that.

Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can't believe you'll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman's energies.

Als ich sehe, wie Harus Haar verspielt im Wind tanzt und völlig zerzaust wird, und das, obwohl das Grau da draußen doch bleischwer in der Luft lastet, erkenne ich auf einmal, wie weit, weit weg die Vergangenheit ist. Weiter als der Tod, ja weiter sogar als die unüberbrückbare Distanz, die zwischen zwei Menschen besteht.

Quiero seguir sintiendo a toda costa que algún día he de morir. De otro modo, no sentiría que estoy viviendo. Por eso, mi vida es así.

I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they're dying it keeps them from being reborn as a Buddha

Parting and death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can't believe you'll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman's energies.

I thought about the complications of what I'd been dealing lately. And then I understood that actually it wasn't just the relationship- I had so much baggage from my chilhood, from before I was born into this world too. I understood that for the first time that night. And I knew it would always be that way, until we die. Even after we're dead.

When I'm dead worn out, in a reverie, I often think that when it comes time to die, I want to breathe my last in a kitchen. Whether it's cold and I'm all alone, or somebody's there and it's warm, I'll stare death fearlessly in the eye. If it's a kitchen, I'll think, 'How good.

D'un tratto capii quanto fosse lontano il passato. Anche più della morte, anche più della distanza incolmabile tra persona e persona.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive. That is what makes the life I have now possible.

Pensai: ecco, se dopo la morte il mio spirito tornasse sulla terra in una sera d'estate, è così che il mondo mi apparirebbe.

The two of us may be in the epicenter of death, but I was hoping to spare you this misery. It could be like this for as long as we stay together.

if you come to know lots of different people's dreams, like you did, maybe you reach a point from which you can't return, and maybe that weighted down on you so heavily that in the end there was nothing you could do but die.

The intensity of a person unafraid of death, at the end of his rope.

Il corpo continua a vivere anche se l'anima è morta.

I don't think he was actually human. I really don't," I replied, investing these words with as much meaning as possible. Of course he was nothing more than one vibrantly charismatic young man, but since his death was so sudden and meaningless, and because until he died he'd made life as enjoyable as he possibly could, his existence had taken on a peculiar meaning.

Que los muertos no volvían. Que una cosa era sólo una cosa

Parting & death are both terribly painful. But to keep nursing the memory of a love so great you can't believe you'll ever love again is a useless drain on a woman's energies.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

Welcome to the future.... All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.