13,737 Quotes About Death

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals.

Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound. And for two cold days and three long nights, The father tended that holy plot; And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground.

For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.

Lieb Liebchen, leg ‘s Händchen aufs Herze mein; -Ach, hörst du, wie’s pochet im Kämmerlein,Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg,Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg.Es hämmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei Nacht;Es hat mich schon längst um den Schlaf gebracht.Ach! sputet Euch, Meister Zimmermann,Damit ich balde schlafen kann.

Who can be worried without the light of a memory?

Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break.