13,737 Quotes About Death

Janet: What do you think happens when people walk through the door? It's the only thing in the universe I don't know.Eleanor: I don't know either. The wave returns to the ocean. What the ocean does with the water after that is anyone's guess. But as a very wise not-robot once told me, the true joy's in the mystery.

What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.

I am not ready to die,But I am learning to trust deathAs I have trusted life.I am movingToward a new freedom

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.