1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

...the phone rang.When the phone rang so early in the morning, it oftentimes meant somebody was dead. An elderly person had passed in the night. A Friday night traffic fatality. The families of deceased would set about the task of notifying family and friends, and somewhere among the sad litany of phone calls, they dialed our number.

Darkness is but a door, scary not because it opens, but out of fear that it will never close

The dignity of life lives in death ~ 'Final View

They were married to the highway and the system they’d created and so they simply waited, contending with the heat and the flies and the monotony and the sudden violence, until death came for them.

KARLI KAYIN ORMANINDA...En acayip gücümüzdür,kahramanlıktır yaşamak:Öleceğimizi bilipöleceğimizi mutlak.Memleket mi, daha uzak,gençliğim mi, yıldızlar mı?Bayramoğlu, Bayramoğlu, ölümden öte köy var mı ?...

As soon as those hands devoluted me to earth, I was thrown out of my grave. Since then I am sitting here, by the side of my grave, and wondering, Was it the body whose satisfaction and survival made me so obsessed ? Was it the same entity for which I strived day and night? For whose entertainment , I wished to change the world order. And now I am seeing it decaying and rotting. I am just trying to search myself out of this decomposed matter.

We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other some winter night before bedtime, stirring poison into our cups of whiskey-spiked chamomile tea, wearing party hats. Then, nervous about our double homicide, we could lie in bed together, holding hands again, frightened and waiting, still wondering, after all these years, if we even believed in our own souls.

Birth is not a beginning; it’s a continuation. That lends tremendous comfort because we then understand that, equally true, death is not an end; it’s merely a continuation.

There's this thing; it's called 'hate'. It's born to dim shine's brilliance.... then it dies.