13,737 Quotes About Death

For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?

Fear manifested itself as a physical presence that seemed to dominate the public sphere. Time almost stopped. Even without confirmation I could sense that something had gone terribly wrong.

Is it about lack of closure, unfinished business?" he asked. "Or perhaps that, whether people are with us or not, the relationship keeps on going. The dead only leave the room; they remain firmly in our lives.

ne tappavat itsensä kaasulla, vedellä, tulella,ampumalla, hirttämällä, hyppäämällä, tekemälläharakirin, vuotamalla kuiviin, syömällätabuja tai tarttumalla sähkööntoiset tallentavat itsensä videolleheinäsirkat saapuvatmaa väistyy altakalpeat miehet nousevat kellareistavitamiinipurkit taskuissa helistenonko olemassa ketäänjolla ei olisi luurankoapiilossa sängyn alla!

Grief is paradoxical: you know you must let go, and yet letting go cannot happen all at once. The literature of mourning enacts that dilemma; its solace lies in the ritual of remembering the dead and then saying, There is no solace, and also, This has been going on a long time.

I wonder why the dead can't talk, look at all the crimes we'd solve if the damn dead would just Ouija board us our answers, or tell all those weird psychic people who killed 'em.

How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us

This shit about being fearless before death ain't got no quality. How could you say you were fearless about leaving the party, even in stir—even franks and rice taste good when you're hungry, even an iron bar feels good to touch, it feels good to sleep. It's like a party even in maximum security and who wants to walk out of a party into something that nobody knows anything at all about?

You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.