13,737 Quotes About Death

Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers That deck our little path of light: For all too soon we twain shall tread The bitter pastures of the dead: Estranged, sad spectres of the night.

She is a siren of death, disturbingly beautiful and heartbreakingly deadly.

In wartime, she thought to herself, you don’t call a death murder.

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.

You can't miss me, because I was never there.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

As I go to bed, I think how awful it would be to die in the middle of reading a good novel.