13,737 Quotes About Death

Doctor: 'You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.'Bruce: 'Why?'Doctor: 'How can you move faster then possible, fight longer then possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit? The fear of death.'Bruce:'I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns. And there's no one there to save it.'Doctor: 'Then make the climb.'Bruce: 'How?'Doctor: 'As the child did - without the rope. Then fear will find you again.

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Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.

If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If that’s its time, when else should it come?I like it that everything is real and everything is right;And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it.And so, if I die now, I die peacefullyBecause everything is real and everything is right.

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.

They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.

There are not enough words in the English language to describe the experience of this. Death is more than life. Humans put their animals “to sleep” when it’s really waking them up. Everybody has it all backwards.