13,737 Quotes About Death

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates.

If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying.

Walking alone in the dark early the next morning, New Year's Day, the coming year stretched out like a bleak and endless highway, leading nowhere.... Having held on for months, thinking that that if only we can get through to the new year, now I felt plunged into black ice, in danger of drowning.... Suddenly I understood our friends' concern. Could this be what precedes some kind of breakdown--a sudden shift to feel oblivion as temptation, even as seduction?

Maybe it wasn’t the smart thing, but when you lose someone like that? They’re just gone? There’s this hole inside you you’d give anything to fill. You don’t think, you don’t plan, you just pour shit into it, anything that will fill it.

She thought, I shall die of misery and pain.

You have no control overhow your story begins or ends.But by now, you should know thatall things have an ending.Every spark returns to darkness.Every sound returns to silence.Every flower returns to sleepwith the earth.The journey of the sunand moon is predictable. But yours,is your ultimateART.

In a sleep caused by the drowsiness of defeat, she dreamt of endless travel into darkness.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

The prisoner of doubt ends his stint [through suicide], released to the custody of that final question mark which punctuates every life sentence.