Quotes About Death

Everything about death is a cliché until you're in it.

In the dream I knew she was dead, and I reached out for her and said, "But you're coming back, right?" She smiled but shook her head; her face was a well of sadness.

It was like a bad dream with only one saving grace: my family thought I was dead. I suddenly felt lighter, relieved of the burden that had been placed on me as a living person. Yet, there was still someone who knew I existed, which made me feel like a real person again, not a ghost roaming the earth.

The greatest honor I could have given my family was that of my death, and I ran from it. I was frightened at not fulfilling my obligation, not giving ko to my parents. Yet, there was a voice inside of me that kept telling me to escape

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Wandering through many countries and over many seas, I come, my brother, to these sorrowful obsequies, to present you with the last guerdon of death, and speak, though in vain, to your silent ashes.

Now he goes along the dark road, thither whence they say no one returns.

Do you think there really is a Heaven?" Jamie asked, his small voice floating up into the darkness. I lay still, afraid to answer, because I wasn't sure. "Yes, Jamie," Mary said. "And tomorrow we'll see Mum and Dad." "And Bella," I added. "She'll bark the second she sees you." Jamie giggled. To laugh at our own death seemed strange, but it was all we could do.

The wages of dying are love.

the wages of dying is love.

Syrio Forel: There is only one god, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: 'Not today.

Y aun no se me figura que me toca aqueste oficio solamente en vida, mas con la lengua muerta y fría en la boca pienso mover la voz a ti debida; libre mi alma de su estrecha roca, por el Estigio lago conducida, celebrando t'irá, y aquel sonido hará parar las aguas del olvido.

Art teaches us the things that reality can't. Teaches us to live with the things that seem beyond endurance. Missed chances. Failed love affairs. Suffering and death—the stuff of actual life.

Depressed heartbreak is rarely disruptive or demanding or loudly eccentric. Depressed heartbreak is like taking a step into death while looking like you have remembered how to behave. I think this tells us something about the half-deadness this world [under late capitalism] demands of us. Learning to go through the motions and not hope too much.

Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.

Other humans can die a grisly death, as Jesus did. They cannot be born, as he was, as God incarnate.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to ward the dead and have and make. If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

Time and death sleep side by side.

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

People speak of a will to live. They rarely speak of a will to die. Because people are afraid of death. Death is dark and unknown and frightening. But not for me. It is not the end.

To live everyday as if it has been stolen by death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to. When I am a person, that is how I will live my life.

Ayrton Senna. He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he. A great man, he was. A great man, he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.