438 quotes
“Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.”
"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"
— Chuck Palahniuk
"I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time."
— Banksy
"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."
— William Penn
"Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires."
— Wallace Stevens
"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."
— W. H. Auden
"Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses."
— Vladimir Nabokov
"Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him."
— Ursula K. LeGuin
"Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part."
— Toni Morrison
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
— Tennessee Williams
"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."
— T. S. Eliot
"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."
— Socrates
"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."
"...the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death."
"Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love."
— Rainer Maria Rilke
"Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
— Rabindranath Tagore
"First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too."
— Percy Shelley
"A beautiful death is for people who lived like animals to die like angels—loved and wanted."
— Mother Teresa
"Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them."
— Margaret Atwood
"It is not death that a man should fear he should fear never beginning to live."
— Marcus Aurelius
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
— Leonardo da Vinci