13,737 Quotes About Death

Women’s bodies are so often under the purview of men, whether it’s our reproductive organs, our sexuality, our weight, our manner of dress. There is a freedom found in decomposition, a body rendered messy, chaotic, and wild. I relish this image when visualizing what will become of my future corpse.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

There was no hope in death, only an end.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.

Do not worry about anything right now." Eleanor smiled. "Undoubtedly, sorrows will stray onto our path, but that is the way of life. For now, let your heart feel joy. Throughout the long and wonderful years of our marriage, other and perhaps stronger evils will arise, but for now, let yourself enjoy the peace. I am certain that eventually, someday, we shall experience death. But for now, we will enjoy life.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.