13,737 Quotes About Death

The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.

Obviously living beings are prejudiced against death.

The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing ‘Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack

Our knowledge of life is limited to death

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.

Obviously, living beings are prejudiced against death. They can't take death of someone as easily as birth of someone.

How does one become a butterfly?' she asked pensively.'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.''You mean to die?' asked Yellow, remembering the three who fell out of the sky.'Yes and No,' he answered.'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will still live.

What I mean to say is, we had been considerable. Had been loved. Not lonely, not lost, not freakish, but wise, each in his or her own way. Our departures caused pain. Those who had loved us sat upon their beds, heads in hand; lowered their faces to tabletops, making animal noises. We had been loved, I say, and remembering us, even many years later, people would smile, briefly gladdened at the memory.