13,737 Quotes About Death

Every moment is a gift, but when the moment passes, the gift is not gone. The real gift is the life and spirit within another. That life is everywhere around us. It gets concentrated in a certain place and we call that a ‘loved one’. But if the ‘loved one’ has to journey somewhere, we haven’t lost the gift of love or life. It swirls around and shows itself to us in a million ways.

...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.

While he lived, I wished to say to Rosie, you scarcely had a gentle word for him and lived in fear of his drunken rages and other cruelties. But I did not remark out loud upon this, only noting privately to myself that death can work most extraordinary changes to a person's reputation and all that we have wished someone to be while they lived, they become, the moment they are dead.

Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.

Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible.

Whether my death changes anything is not important," the man said, almost in a whisper, "but whether you allow my death to change you is another matter entirely.

Life is all memories. People may not be present in body, but they are with us in spirit.

As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line.

The day when people once again die from the scratch of a rose thorn may not be far away.