Death Quotes

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

O, if I say, you look upon this verse,When I perhaps compounded am with clay,Do not so much as my poor name rehearse,But let your love even with my life decay;Lest the wise world should look into your moan,And mock you with me after I am gone.

William Shakespeare

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Ashley Montagu

We are pagans. We deify each other.

Lara Biyuts

Crap.It's all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn't anybody realize this?

K-Ske Hasegawa

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

Bernard Berenson

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Jean Giraudoux

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?

Mira Grant

Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him,And all their ministers attend on him.

William Shakespeare

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

Jodi Picoult

A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollarThey're worth so much more after I'm a gonerAnd maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'Funny when you're dead how people start listenin

Kimberly Perry

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death.

Paulo Coelho

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

Stanislav Grof

I truly believe that when you're funny, you're blessed. Your whole life is kind of golden. I was happy, although it was not perfect happiness. There was illness and sadness and death.

Martin Short

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.

Joseph Campbell

He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.

Alice Sebold

A man who is not poor nor ill, nor about to be stoned to death, must not distress himself if he does not feel all through his life what faith Stephen had only in his last moments.

William Mountford

Let the sweet hope that Thou art mine, My life and death attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end.

Anne Steele

The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;And, looking over the hills, I mournThe darling who shall not return.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Muriel Barbery