13,737 Quotes About Death

as i cannot grasp the concept of mortalitydoes that mean i am immortal? ~ questions of life.

They couldn't see how maddening death really was, how colossally pointless in every way.

Each time we choose to step down for others that is a form of death to self.

Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more.

Your life is like a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

I once asked God in a dream if I could see the world, he answered me, "When you die I will show you more than that boring world has to offer. I promise." Am I silly to think he will make good on his promise to me? I think we will be traveling to different galaxies, into the universe next door, out in space where a black hole will no longer be a mystery but a radiant sight to see. I do, I think he will find me upon my death and fly with me into the depths of his creation.

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Life demands death to self

Death scares us. And because it scares us, we avoid thinking about it, talking about it, sometimes even acknowledging it, even when it's happening to someone close to us. Yet, in a bizarre, backwards way, death is the light by which the shadow of all of life's meaning is measured. Without death, everything would feel inconsequential, all experience arbitrary, all metrics and values suddenly zero.