13,737 Quotes About Death

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

To the dismay of those that stood by, about the body of Saruman a grey mist gathered, and rising very slowly to a great height like smoke from a fire, as a pale shrouded figure it loomed over the Hill. For a moment it wavered, looking to the West; but out of the West came a cold wind, and it bent away, and with a sigh dissolved into nothing.

Death from afar appears serene but it's an illusion. Death rips the soul from the body leaving behind just the casing.

I remember that day in early May after Le Vesconte's and Private Pilkington's brief joint burial service, one of the men suggested that we name the small spur of land where they were buried "Le Vesconte Point," but Captain Crozier vetoed that idea, saying that if we named every place where one of us might end up buried after the dead person there, we'd run out of land before we ran out of names.

It's like a memorial to Atlantis or Lyonesse: these are the stone buoys that mark a drowned world.

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...

If life is worth living for so is it worth dying.

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.

We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire.