13,737 Quotes About Death

Thoughts can break walls and also erect walls, they can set a man on the path of life or the path of destruction.

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

We may like to combat disease or even want to cure death. We may try to surf on the waves of infinity and attempt to kill mortality. Nobody, though, ever recovers from the lethal illness. In the meantime, we’d better unlock temporal moments that deliver touches of eternity. They, for sure, never disappoint. (" Living on probation")

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Isn't life,' she stammered, 'isn't life--' But what life was she couldn't explain. No matter. He quite understood.'Isn't it, darling?' said Laurie.

..how hard it is to keep alive someone who doesn't want to stay alive. First you try logic ("You have so much to live for"), and then you try guilt ("You owe me"), and then you try anger, and threats, and pleading ("I'm old; don't do this to an old man"). But then, once they agree, it is necessary that you, the cajoler, move into the realm of self-deception, because you can see that it is costing them, you can see how much they don't want to be here..

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.