13,737 Quotes About Death

Of course what I'm about to share isn't true for me but...Friends, somebody said, are "god's apology for relations." (p. 129)

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies.

If someone has died, don't get consoled by readymade theories of soul and rebirth. Find the truth yourself. Where do people disappear all of a sudden? Are they still there in the past? What is past? What is Time? Is there anything beyond Time? Or 'nothing'? Or God?

There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there.

On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.

When he said to give him the sword, I don’t think he meant for you to stick it in his guts.

There is no antidote against the opium of time, which temporally considereth all things: our fathers find their graves in our short memories, and sadly tell us how we may be buried in our survivors. Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while some trees stand, and old families last not three oaks.

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.