13,737 Quotes About Death

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.

Sometimes it might be kinder to kill a man, than to take his dreams from him.

The story that is a story and sounded so healthy and stood no nonsense cannot sincerely lead to any conclusion but the grave.

The folk of Riverton have all been dead so long. While age has withered me, they remain eternally youthful, eternally beautiful.There now. I am becoming maudlin and romantic. For they are neither young nor beautiful. They are dead. Buried. Nothing. Mere figments that flit within the memories of those they once knew.But of course, those who live in memories are never really dead.

The fog was made more beautiful by its passing, like flags in the spring; like the last drone of cicadas in a dying summer; like the brief yellow of hickories, the purple of sweetgums, in the fall. You loved most the things that passed away, that you couldn't hold on to, no matter how much you loved them.

Even if fall she must, it was to lie on the earth and moulder sweetly into the roots of violets.

...is not all philosophy but preparation for a serene dying?

It wouldn't be the worst thing, would it? To die young, I mean.