13,737 Quotes About Death

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.

Before, I was what you might call "happy". After, it was like happy people became the enemy. Happy people were weak. They were clueless. They did stupid things like die on you.

Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

Among other things, culture is the decision as to how a corpse is to be returned to the soil.

If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels; and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.

I began to feel that all the people I'd ever known who had died or left me had not in fact gone away, but continued to live on inside me just as this man's wife lived on inside him.

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.

Death's an old story, but new for each person.