Death Quotes

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes it's noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.

There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.

When we die, no one remembers us for what we weighed. Our weight isn't etched into our headstones.

Being prepared for loss is never the same as being ready for it.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

There is left us ourselves to end ourselves.

So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity.

Is it sin to rush into the secret house of death, ere death dare come to us?

Against self-slaughter there is a prohibition so divine that cravens my weak hand.

I know death is coming, and I do not fear it. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Death likes it when you play hard to get.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.

That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.