13,737 Quotes About Death

When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.

The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters—it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too soon and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.

It's unfair."As a rule, life is unfair," I said.Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things."To Dick?"Yeah."I pulled the car over to the shoulder of the road and turned off the ignition. "That's just stupid, that kind of thinking," I said, nailing her with my eyes. "Instead of regretting what you did, you could have treated him decently from the beginning. You could've tried to be fair. But you didn't. You don't even have the right to be sorry.

John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.

Look at your own povertywelcome itcherish itdon't be afraidshare your deathbecause thus you will share your love and your life

Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history.

Not everyone who has killed themselves because they were HIV positive would have been killed by AIDS.