Quotes about death

Davy, too, was saying farewell to the wind, farewell to the wind and sky, watching it all go, fade away, die — and thanking God. And yet she was human, heart-breakingly human, and she did not want to die.

[Her death] saved our love from perishing in one of the other ways that love could perish. Would I not rather our love go through death than hate?

“You fought for your freedom and won a different kind of prison. I will fight for mine—”

“You can’t fight me,” Tearle reminded him harshly.

“I know.” In the placid light, his face looked chilled and very weary. “But I can die.”

For each man the world ends when he dies.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

I don't know what God is.

I don't know what death is.But I believe they have between them

some fervent and necessary arrangement.

Death waits for me, I know it, around

one corner or another.

This doesn't amuse me.

Neither does it frighten me. After the rain, I went back into the field of sunflowers.

It was cool, and I was anything but drowsy.

I walked slowly, and listened to the crazy roots, in the drenched earth, laughing and growing.

"Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry.

"And what is beauty?"

"Terror."

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"And if beauty is terror," said Julian, "then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?"

"To live," said Camilla.

"To live forever," said Bunny, chin cupped in his palm.

Meaning in life can’t be reduced to simplistic mottos. In some number of years I will be dead; some memory of my time here on Earth may linger, but I won’t be around to savor it.

The secret is how to die.

Since the beginning of time, the secret had always been how to die.

Nothing is more certain than death and nothing uncertain but its hour.

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?