13,737 Quotes About Death

Soft as an echo, I feel I am fading— Fading until I am gone. Still I remain. I am listening and waiting— Waiting for you to go on. Once more, once more. Tell me my story once more. Swiftly repeat it before I’m forgotten— Pleading, O tell me, once more.

At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death.

Death is not the end, it's the beginning of a new life. Don't be afraid to die, be willing to embrace a new start.

To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment.

Ungayihluphi ngabantu. Bazokuthanda moshonile.

We’re all little miracles,” she said, “everything about us: all our stupid habits and our jokes and our weird faces, on a spinning ball that’s the perfect distance from the sun. And now here we are, you and me, sitting on top of a million years of history.

And yet I would not be a child again.For surely as the night succeeds the day,So surely will their mirth turn into tears.And I would not return to happy hours,If I must live again these weary years.I would walk on, and leave it all behind:will walk on; and when my feet grow sore,The boatman waits—his sails are all unfurled—He waits to row me to a fairer shore.

When one nears the end, one likes to reminisce

Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown days, each far too little and yet too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer, with that bittersweet release lingering in the doorway, but never quite being sent all the way in, to comfort and carry our loved one to that Better Place.” ― Connie Kerbs