13,737 Quotes About Death

At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long

Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain….There was never a place for me in the scheme of things….I had become a living fantasy on a theme in dark, endless dirges….I made another world, and real men would enter it and they would never really get hurt at all in the vivid, unreal laws of the dream. I caused dreams which caused death. This is my crime.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.

To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.

To draw me out, the therapist asks what I did for the holidays. When I tell him he says gently (he says everything gently), Sounds like that's one of the ways your loss has affected you: not wanting to be with other people. Hating to be with other people, I don't say. Terrified of being with other people.

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.