Death Quotes

"After all, what is the real cost of being forgotten?"

"Death is not the opposite of life, but part of it"

"The old lady's head cleared for an instant and she realized, strangely, that this would be her last act on earth."

"We are made of dust, and our end is dust."

"Death is not the worst thing. The worst thing is to live without purpose."

"Death gives life meaning. Without it, nothing matters."

"Death reminds us that meaning must be made, not found."

"We are dying creatures who in some sense are being pressed down upon by gravity and mortality every single instant."

"You can't think about the future without thinking about death."

"The so-called 'problem' of time is really a problem of mortality."

"Losing a parent is something like driving through a plateglass window. You didn't know it was there until it was too late to brake."

"The challenge is how to live well with the knowledge of finitude."

"Death is not the worst thing. Meaninglessness is."

"No one dies in a story. Everyone dies outside of one."

"Death reminds us that time is precious and relationships matter most."

"Most people are better off dead."

"Mostly he thought about death, as if by constant contemplation he might find in it some argument against its nature."

"We're all just trying to distract ourselves from thinking about death."

"Death is not the end; it is the final chapter."

"When you're dead you stay dead a long time."

"The terrible thing about getting older is you lose people you love."

"Death is not the end, it's a new beginning."

"We must accept death as part of life."

"We are all dying from the moment we are born."

"Nothing we do has the quickness, the importance, or the beauty of what we have lost."

"The death of the self is the birth of consciousness."

"We're all dying; the only question is whether we're living before we do."

"Mortality is the real thing, and we spend our lives avoiding it."

"Death gives life its meaning; without it, there is only endless repetition."

"I was reading the letters on the tomb stone."