13,737 Quotes About Death

Thanks,” Johann finally said. “It’s the irony of war. Those who want to live, die. Those who want to die, live on.

The syrup of lilies hangs thick and sweet in the air, its cloying scent the traditional mask of death and rebirth: ashes and incense, rain and dirt, and something like rosin. It's the scent Hector associates with God. The scent of heavenly things.

Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to the great world around it. Each elder is a philosopher of sorts, trying to sort out the meanings and gleanings of a life as well as the necessary implications of the presence of death.

Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America

مذهب اگر پیش از مرگ به کار نیاید پس از مرگ به هیچ کار نخواهد آمد.

What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone’s memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.

Something happens everywhere in this country Every day. Someone is praying, someone is prey.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Wenn man noch nicht das Leben kennt, wie sollte man den Tod kennen.