13,737 Quotes About Death
- Author Robyn Schneider
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That's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.
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- Author Philippa Gregory
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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- Author Haruki Murakami
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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
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- Author Jimmy Buffett
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One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.
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- Author Charlie Kaufman
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There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.
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- Author Craig D. Lounsbrough
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My great-grandfather fought in the Civil War. And such was the carnage that he never spoke of it right up to his dying day. Therefore, we might consider that it was the sacrifices that he witnessed, and the pain of comrades lost that he carried to his own grave that are but a tiny part of the inestimable price paid for the liberties that we abuse.
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- Author Louise Glück
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Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world.
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- Author Jane Yolen
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I think of death, not as a smokestack, but as an opening door.
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- Author Jack Kerouac
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Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone
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