13,737 Quotes About Death

Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the rising sun.

كنتُ كالطائر المذبوح وهو يرفرف بجناحيه مؤدياً رقصة الموت، كنتُ أخطو بقدمي على جراحاتي وآلامي كرقصة البجعة الأخيرة وهي تبكي حياتها في هدوء ملكي وتبتهج للقاء الإله أبولو.

La petite mort' and 'la grande mort' within ten seconds of each other—coming and going in the space of three short breaths.

I know I could have saved your ashes to put into the ocean, but I wanted you to have the journey, all the way with the currents, to the open sea. And I know that when I finally get to see the waves washing on the shore, to hear them, I will feel you there.

Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.

Some people chase the idea of death so much they forget to do something as simple, yet profound, as live.

Maybe, if she was standing before that sleeping king, she'd ask the king to save Gansey's life.

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

Mother, death, love -- everyone shares, unequally, those three poles of fascination.