13,737 Quotes About Death

If I bring him home though, I swear he’ll spend the rest of his life waiting by the door. And he deserves better than that, don’t you think?’Yes, I think, my heart breaking.You can’t explain death. And love deserves better than that.

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

What careful planning, what painstaking attention to detail, goes into extinguishing a man's life! Far more than the hit-or-miss, haphazard circumstances of igniting it.("New York Blues")

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of meat; diseased, leathery meat, yes, but meat ready for the skewer & the spit." He mimicked my usual voice, very well. "'But why *me*, Henry, are we not friends?' Well, Adam, even friends are made out of meat.

I wanted to think that she did look back, that she’d reveled in the memory of a long ago lover, or a perfect sun lit day in her youth when she’d experienced a bit of good fortune and the world had revealed itself to be big and full of promise.

The thing about getting old Bare, is that you’re the same person inside... you’re trapped in this doggone contraption that starts falling apart but it’s still you.