13,737 Quotes About Death

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

By daily dying, I have come to be.

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved.

there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.

Don’t hope you will receive help from the words of life because they all bring you to death.

Everything is mandatory in the world. Dying is mandatory, and being born is mandatory. So discover that which is of your own volition.

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness.