1,046 Quotes About Death-and-dying

Each death is as unique as each life.

It was all leaving her in slow, imperceptible movements, like the tide when one's back is turned: everyone, everything she had known. So all of grief and happiness, far from being buried with one, vanished beforehand except for scattered pieces. She lived among forgotten episodes, unknown faces bereft of names, closed off from the very world she had created; that was how it came to be. But I must show nothing of that, she thought. Her children---she must not reveal it to them.

مهم نیست که مرگ، کجا و چه وقت به سراغ من می آید.مهم این است که وقتی میاید، من آنجا نباشم.

Death is perhaps an ordeal, but it is not an expiation

It is a feeling of being self-contained, existing only within the boundaries of oneself, impaled by the horn of my own thoughts, my memories bleeding out, but slowly, the moment stretching to infinity, the clocks of the world now useless, like deflated balloons that have spun around aimlessly for a while and then, sputtering, float lazily to the ground, their mechanical parts now draped over rocks and seashells, this is what death is.

He's dead.''Dead?'Funny how people always repeat that word, even though they know they've heard it correctly. A kind of denial by delay.

Big Angel could not reconcile himself to this dirty deal they had all been dealt. Death. What a ridiculous practical joke. Every old person gets the punch line that the kids are too blind to see. All the striving, lusting, dreaming, suffering, working, hoping, yearning, mourning, suddenly revealed itself to be an accelerating countdown to nightfall.....This is the prize: to realize, at the end, that every minute was worth fighting for with every ounce of blood and fire.

And our love goes beyond flesh; it transcends Death's reminder. In the Underworld Library, two books sharing a binder

What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.