13,737 Quotes About Death

In the presence of death everything becomes power, and ordinary acts become imbued with magic.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behindIn balance with this life, this death.

Maybe beauty is death, in a way, just like the decadent aesthetes used to say. It's a reminder that things are fragile, because when one thing envelopes another thing, that other thing might be overwhelmed or destroyed.

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.

The death of a lesser man is the death of all those who believe themselves to be greater.

You will forget. Death or life will take him from your minds. I know, whispered Despair, in her distant, empty voice. But I shall remember him.

Nuoširdžiai manau, kad didžioji literatūra mirė, todėl išnyko ir mirtis kūrinių finaluose, nes beveik visas menas dabar yra kuriamas tam, kad žmonės mirtį pamirštų.

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard.

I was born in a hospital. I do not want to die in one.