13,737 Quotes About Death

But at a certain point we turn round, almost instinctively,and see that a gate has been bolted behind us, barring our way back (...)Then we understand that time is passing and that one day or another the road must come to an end.

Ageing is nothing to be ashamed ofEspecially when the entire race is in it togetherAlthough sometimes it seems that she alone among her friends wants to celebrate getting olderBecause it’s such a privilege to not die prematurely

I missed the sad things about growing old, when women no longer look at you, when wine makes you weep instead of laugh and makes your mouth sour with the taste of weakness, and every day is one day nearer death.

Nobody likes the phenomenon of death, and death hates the phenomenon of life

There’s no escaping the tragedy of life, which is that we are all aging from the day we are born. One may even come to understand and accept this fact.

The grave doesn’t hold any terrors for me, quite the contrary, just as long as I get there in full possession of my faculties.

I spose it’s wrong to pray that someone dies… But I’ve thought about all the prayers. If that’s what I was doing them years…Asking something, someone, anything, for a big black anvil to fall from the sky like in the cartoons. Kerang! On Wankbag’s head. Because nothing else was gunna save [me]…

Life happens, whether you're in it or not, but death doesn't give you a choice.

Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on when we are left all alone, left to fill the void as best we can. Or disappear into it.