Quotes about death

It was as though some stubborn god spent their time in an immutable and absurd balancing act between life and death, prosperity and poverty.

Do not believe that others will die, not you.... I have wrestled with Thanatos knee to knee and I know how death is vanquished. Man's immortality is not to live forever; for that wish is born of fear. Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.

Family trips of my childhood always began with a prayer. I suppose when one goes on vacation, one is courting death in some fashion, tying the morgue tags onto one’s suitcase. But then, too, vacations are respites from death, from thoughts of death. I have sometimes wondered why friends under medical death sentences have undertaken arduous trips or undertaken arduous labors. To put some distance between themselves and death—the obvious answer.

Intimacy is not trapped within words. It passes through words. It passes. The truth is that intimates leave the room. Doors close. Faces move away from the window. Time passes. Voices recede into the dark. Death finally quiets the voice. And there is no way to deny it. No way to stand in the crowd, uttering one’s family language.

When you save someone's life. It's always temporary, y'know?

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

"All true stories end in death."

You can’t feel everyman’s death.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

Death cancels all engagements.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble?

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.