Death quotes
Welcome to our collection of quotes about Death. Death is an inevitable part of life, a universal experience that touches each and every one of us. It is a topic that has been contemplated and mythologized since the beginning of human existence. These quotes offer different perspectives on death, from famous philosophers and writers to spiritual leaders and poets.
The quotes on this page encompass a wide range of emotions and thoughts surrounding death. Some explore the fear and uncertainty that death can bring, while others delve into the acceptance and serenity that can be found in acknowledging its inevitability. These quotes reflect the complexity of human experiences and the diverse ways in which we navigate the concept of death.
Through these quotes, we hope to provide comfort, provoke contemplation, and inspire a deeper understanding of death. Whether you are seeking solace in times of grief, contemplating your own mortality, or simply curious about different perspectives on this profound subject, we invite you to explore our collection of Death quotes.
Remember, death is a part of life, and understanding and accepting its existence can lead to a greater appreciation for the moments we have while we are alive. So, take a moment to reflect and find wisdom in the words of those who have pondered the mysteries of life and its inevitable end.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorOf the widow's countless death-duties there is really just one that matters: on the first anniversary of her husband's death the widow should think I kept myself alive.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWhen writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorThere are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.
Antonio Machado
— PoetDeath is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
Rebecca Godfrey
— Intriguing Author & Investigative JournalistI've read Flowers in the Attic and The Other Side of Midnight and Go Ask Alice and I don't want to read any more books where the girl dies in the end.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerWords have a life; without response they die.
Peter Deunov
— Spiritual Teacher & PhilosopherDeath can be understood as the passage from one form to another, from a limited degree of life to another higher, freer one. It is wrong to assume that everything ends with death; what ends is only the temporary conditions in which people have lived on earth.
M. F. K. Fisher
— Pioneering Food Writerdeath ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of science and warfare. If by chance we are meant to end life in our beds, we are whisked like pox victims to the nearest hospital, where we are kept as alone and unaware as possible of the approach of disintegration.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorLiving, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.
Ed McBain
— American author and screenwriterA detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week.
Will Ferrell
— American actor, comedian, producer, and writerEveryone I know who skis is dead.
Thomas Kyd
— English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan dramaThen haste we down to meet thy friends and foes;
To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes.
For here though death doth end their misery,
I'll there begin their endless tragedy.
Pope John XXIII
— Head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 28 October 1958 until his death in 1963Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.
Craig Stone
— English footballerOnly the dying take pleasure in the details of what the healthy fail to notice.
Eli Roth
— American film director, producer, and actorLife is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorImpossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTo be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Antonio Machado
— PoetDeath is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerExplorers have to be ready to die lost.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorThe most important thing you do in your life is to die.
Thomas Kyd
— English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan dramaOh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; Oh life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
Craig Stone
— English footballerWe only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorIn death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.
Timothy Leary
— American psychologist and authorGive death a better name or die trying.
Craig Stone
— English footballerA person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThere was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI might accept immortality, if I had to do it. But I would prefer - if there is any afterlife - to know nothing whatever about Borges, about his experiences in this world.
Sarah Vowell
— AuthorNot that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.
Craig Stone
— English footballerAll snowmen look to the sky, knowing their death will be delivered by the horizon. Before dawn, their life becomes the darkest. The moment before the sun burns all.
The Snowmen go mental. Kill or be killed.
I only just escaped the violent puddles, the sticks and stones.
The broken carrot noses.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThe use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterNot a single star will be left in the night. The night will not be left. I will die and, with me, the weight of the intolerable universe. I shall erase the pyramids, the medallions, the continents and faces. I shall erase the accumulated past. I shall make dust of history, dust of dust. Now I am looking on the final sunset. I am hearing the last bird. I bequeath nothingness to no one.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWhat does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterTo die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWhen my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterYou may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI am almost sure to be blotted out by death, but sometimes I think it is not impossible that I may continue to live in some other manner after my physical death . Or, as Hamlet wonders, what dreams will come when we leave this body?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterOnce I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterIt seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterBest thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death.