13,737 Quotes About Death

O, never from the memory of my heartYour dear, paternal image shall depart,Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprised,Taught me how mortals are immortalized;How grateful am I for that patient careAll my life long my language shall declare.

How obtuse these nihilists are! Because I will die someday, does that mean I shouldn't enjoy my life now?

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them.

The summer kings are gods, and we are finally, in the end, just men.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

Scarlet watched a leaf fall to the ground, lying dead amoung the other leaves on the forest floor. "A brief life seems pointless."Tristan thought for a moment. "Isn't that what life is, though? A brief opportunity to exist? A short gift?

I find myself thinking about my ongoing existence as a human being and the path that lies ahead of me. Though of course these thoughts lead to but one place - death.

…the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead, that only occasionally, in certain lights and atmospheric conditions, do we appear in their field of vision.