Death Quotes

"The other's death is what first teaches us mortality."

"Death is the horizon that gives meaning to life."

"Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away to the next room"

"I understand then why people care so little for the dead. It is because death has no continuation."

"Suicide is a confession. It is a confession to the effect that life is too much for you."

"Mourning cannot be overcome or resolved; it must be lived."

"The specter is neither living nor dead; it haunts from within."

"Death is what individualizes us and makes us singular."

"Death is the horizon that gives life meaning."

"Death is not the opposite of life; it haunts every moment of living."

"The flesh bears the mark of what cannot be erased."

"To mourn is to acknowledge what cannot be recovered."

"The boundary between life and death is more porous than we imagine."

"Death is the ultimate absurdity; it reveals the contingency of human existence."

"To accept death is to stop living inauthentically; finitude gives urgency to choice."

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

"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."

"Death gives urgency to life."

"Death is not an evil because we cannot experience it."

"Death gives meaning to life by establishing finitude."

"Death is the veil that no one has yet seen behind."

"Every man dies his own death."

"If we fix our thoughts on the problem of death, we see how senseless is the wish so to exist always."

"Death reminds us that life is finite and precious."

"Death is the possibility of absolute impossibility."

"Authenticity requires confronting one's own mortality."

"Death is the possibility that individualizes and authenticates existence."

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death."

"Most of the leading intellectuals of the world have declared themselves unable to believe in the immortality of the soul."

"Death individualizes us—it makes authentic existence possible."