13,737 Quotes About Death

The death of the human body is not only inevitable, but necessary, too. Just as you’d never wish to be forced as an adult to wear clothes you haven’t fit into since you were five, the soul needs to move on and away from the body. It outgrows it.

New exit, new entry!

Death was straightforward and undemanding. Life, on the other hand, was harsh and burdensome.

I’ve been thinking of a poet who is dying in New York,how these days she reads her beloved Dante,perhaps looking for something to framewhat is happening to her.And whom, I wonder, do I turn to?Whom in this century do I readas if my life depended upon it?

Reading and writing aren't sacred yet people have been killed as if they were

Death is the alpha and omega of destiny. It can excite its flames or stifle them out. How it affects your destiny depends on you. Can you endure it and grow? Or will you let it destroy you?

I don't know about angels,but humans need unanswered questions so that they have a reason to look.

And maybe that's the whole point, after all - that everyone of us who existed spent all those limitless days over the thousands of centuries we were here just trying to figure out what it meant to be us. The mousetrap trigger is this precise point: Pour the word us into the coding of a human, and we immediately discount as inferior or useless all the not-us things in the universe. Are you one of us?

Dying's a bitch, and I would know.