13,737 Quotes About Death

Give me one more night to taste the darkWhen wolves imitate a lone dog's bark Let those secrets remain unspoken Fallen angel's heart now lover's token Light grows dim burying riddle’s death Just breathe to free your one last breath

First the heart stops, then it races. First comes the shock of not understanding what's happening, then comes the shock of realizing precisely what's happening. The survival instinct and fear of dying start to fight, making space for some surprisingly irrational thoughts in between.

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again.

I'm not afraid of dying. It's just that I'll be dead for such a long.

I'm not afraid of dying. It's just that I'll be dead for such a long time.

This fear bears no analogy to any fear I know before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the feat that makes us bury our dead.

I'd never compared myself to being dead before, but it was the only thing I could think of. The only thing worse than the situation I faced.

Physical death is only one form of dying. There are other forms of dying:We die whenever fear governs our choices.We die when we sacrifice growth for security.We die whenever we choose a convenient certainty over an inconvenient mystery.

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.