13,737 Quotes About Death

I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.

A person dies... Disappears into thin air... But people keep on doing things casually as though nothing has happened. TV, radio, newspaper, internet -- everywhere the only discussion should be on who we are and where we have come from? Instead people are busy doing circus. It should make you wonder whether people around you are real or just shadows that are putting on a show to stop you from knowing truth.

I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me.To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness.

A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?

She thinks of the 4 a.m. lonelinesses that have foldedher up like death, discordant, without logical and beautiful conclusion.

Time has always been the greatest ally to Truth, because Time eventually relieves and reveals all.

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!

… for overstrong was the command to hold fast to each smallest particle of time, to the smallest particle of every circumstance, and to embody all of them in memory as if they could be preserved in memory through all deaths for all times.