13,737 Quotes About Death

When I die, I will dissolve into the world that I lived in. The basic elements and energy that made me will go back to the universe that made them, to be used to create something else.

Only the living can be readers.

I've waited forever for you...what's a few more lifetimes?

And thus the lovers lie side by side. Peace hovers about their abode, smiling angelic figures (with whom too they have affinity) look down upon them from the vault above, and what a happy moment it will be when one day they awaken again together.

At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.

Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.

Why fear death? After all nothing in this universe of being is fairer than the end of being, which we call by the name of death, which sees no difference in people while playing its tune to them… We mustn’t see it as a frightening thing, but as a beautiful reality, and the only absolute truth.

To approach the finality of our bodies while paying no attention to the mini-deaths of daily life is like confusing diamonds with pebbles and throwing them away.

The menopause of Sarah became her menostart; this is feminine beauty! The death plot against Mordecai became his life spring; this is masculine beauty! A kind of life lived in God's word is a life of miraculous beauty!