13,737 Quotes About Death

To geologists, it's death, taxes, and climate change that are the true constants of life on Earth.

I remember the word for chair.I want to say--I'm just not interested anymore.I wake up thinking you have to prepare.Soon the spirit will give up--all the chairs in the world won't help you.

We have yet to understand that a loss never remains a loss, for life is too ingenious in design and persistent in intent to let any death be the end of any story.

Given the correlation between aging and death, declaring that you can’t stand today’s music might actually mark the first stage of the dying process.

Hospitals are hotels for sick people.

Creation is a nightmare spectacular taking place on a planet that has been soaked for hundreds of millions of years in the blood of all its creatures.

And I would like To console youAnd make of you My solitudeAnd drink youAs my sourceAnd lay youOn my distress And breathe Your memoryIn your shadowSmile and sleep-get oldAnd then die.

And there they ring the walls, the young, the lithe. The handsome hold the graves they won in Troy; the enemy earth rides over those who conquered.

Our conception of immortality now requires precise definition. What must be eliminated from the human situation is the inevitability of death as a result and natural end of the aging process. I am speaking of the inescapable parabolic arching from birth to death. But we must clearly understand that any given unit of life -- my individual existence and yours -- can never be guaranteed eternity.