13,737 Quotes About Death

God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

It is always consoling to think of suicide;it's what gets one through many a bad night.

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

[...] death follows us around for a reason. It's because death is our best adviser. There is nothing more powerful than a person who is prepared to live right now, in this instant, fully accepting that this may be their last moment on earth.

It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.