13,737 Quotes About Death

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean.

T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers.

If I lie down on my bed I must be here,But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

What is birthday, but a celebration of death.

Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move.

How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist?