13,737 Quotes About Death

While guns are commonly used to commit suicide, it tends to be a poor choice because many people survive the gunshot wound and slowly bleed to death in pain.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.

It is impossible to separate the art of living from the art of dying, because to be living is to be dying.

Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

I wrote your name on the bullet so that everyone knew you were the last thing that went through my mind.

Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.