quotations about death
Only where there are graves are there resurrections.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners
You can only go into mourning by transfiguration or disfigurement. There is no rational form of the absorption of death.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Cool Memories
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
EDWARD ABBEY. "The Dead Man at Grandview Point"
Desert Solitaire
Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
JEAN COCTEAU
"Postambule," La Fin du Potomac
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
What happens when the thought of death occurs, this very simple and basic thought about death, that I will most certainly die, and that you will most certainly die, is that all these other questions are stripped down to basic, that the very basis for knowledge and existence is shivering, whether one is trembling in tears for another or oneself shivering in anxiety and awe. Hence, at the end we return to the place where we began, at the graveside.
MARIUS TIMMANN MJAALAND
Autopsia
No matter what the circumstances of our death, we overcome the horrors of our lives and find peace at last.
ROSEMARY ALTEA
A Matter of Life and Death
A corpse is what's left after waking too often.
CESARE PAVESE
"Imagination's End"
In the end, living is defined by dying. Bookended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end.
BERNARD BECKETT
Genesis
That death is not to be judged an evil which is the end of a good life; for death becomes evil only by the retribution which follows it.
ST. AUGUSTINE
The City of God
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DEEPAK CHOPRA
Life After Death
Golden lads and girls all must
As chimney-sweepers come to dust.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Cymbeline
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
THOMAS MANN
The Magic Mountain
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most people live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
DEAN KOONTZ
The Husband
Death commences too early--almost before you're half acquainted with life--you meet the other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!
JOSEPH ADDISON
Cato
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
A Treatise on Parents and Children
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims