Death Quotes

The one certainty. These quotes face mortality with wisdom, humor, and grace.

11604 quotes

J
"All things proceed from darkness and all things end in darkness."
Judge Holden
M
"One day you'll get a call, maybe not for a long while."
Miss Emily
J
"Death is the condition of existence."
Judge Holden
O
"She's going to die. She might die anyway."
Offred
T
"Mortality casts its shadow over every moment of joy."
The Narrator (omniscient)
J
"In the neume of the world shall be no place for him at all in the end."
Judge Holden
T
"Death changes things. People, places, even the colour of paint."
The Narrator (omniscient)
J
"What is life? It is light and warmth and motion. It is entropy. It is decay."
Judge Holden
J
"In the end all things return to dust and to silence and to the darkness from which they came."
Judge Holden
J
"Death is but a passing shadow."
Jean Valjean
P
"The dead do not return until their memory is exhausted"
Pilar Ternera
A
"The only immortality available to us is through the memory of others"
Aureliano Buendía
B
"She wanted to die. It was a kind of lust."
Briony Tallis
D
"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding human bones at number 33."
Death
D
"I am haunted by humans."
Death
D
"His soul sat up. It rose from the bed like a mist."
Death
D
"A SMALL FACT You are going to die."
Death
D
"Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die."
Death
D
"Death came knocking at the door."
Death
D
"Death does not discriminate by creed or color."
Death
G
"She died the way she had lived, thinking of others and forgetting herself."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"Every man carries within him the memory of his own death."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"Death announced itself with a scent of bitter almonds."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"The dead do not disappear; they merely change form."
Melquiades
M
"Everything ends, but nothing truly disappears."
Melquiades
C
"In the end we will all of us be dead and there's an end to it."
Cormac McCarthy
D
"She had lived a life of words. And she would die having had them on her lips."
Death
D
"Death does not care about the living. He only collects them."
Death
G
"The most bitter smile in the world was the smile of the dead."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"She was buried beneath a sheet of flowers as though she were a saint."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)