Top 100 Quotes About About Death
#1. I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
Ruth Rendell
#2. When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
Ralph Peters
#3. For me a corpse has a beauty and dignity which a living body could never hold ... there is a peace about death that soothes me.
John Christie
#4. Being a Reaper does have certain perks after all and it isn't all about death and feeding.
Stephen Cost
#5. Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities.
Emil Cioran
#6. I know he loves talking about death. It just takes him a second to get warmed up. "You know," he says. "It just can't be a bad thing. Because it's everything.
Lena Dunham
#7. Freedom. That's the core of why we do what we do. Peace is a fallacy in itself. Personally, I only know of two forms of peace - peace in death and the peace of slavery." He snorted in amusement. "And I'm not certain about death.
Evan Currie
#8. Anyone who sings about love and harmony and life [john lennon] is dangerous to someone who sings about death and killing and subduing [Nixon]
Gore Vidal
#9. She wondered if she had grown obsessed with sex. She admitted to thinking about it almost all the time ... "And if I'm not thinking about sex, I'm thinking about death," she added bitterly. "Sometimes both at the same time.
D.M. Thomas
#10. If you don't know how to live, why wonder about death?
Confucius
#11. If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie
#12. Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Christy Turlington
#13. Death isn't funny."
"Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us - us humans - death is so sad that we must laugh at it.
Robert A. Heinlein
#14. The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.
Emily Dickinson
#15. You think just knowing about death will keep you from dying?
Richard Bachman
#16. The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.
Gabriel Ba
#17. George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.
Elisabeth Elliot
#18. The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.
Karl Marlantes
#19. Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
Emile M. Cioran
#20. Whenever I start thinking about death, it always cheers me up to think about my funeral and my tombstone (which, by the way, will say "Here lies Harlan Sturr. Please don't pee on him.")
Adam Selzer
#22. I've come to a much more controlled idea about death and loss, but I don't think it's possible to come to that much more controlled idea until you've gone through the crazy part ... I don't mean that I'm controlled. I mean that I gave up the idea that I had control. That's the new control.
Joan Didion
#23. The captain doesn't think about death, or life, he thinks about saving his ship,
Bashar Al-Assad
#24. Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure
Epicurus
#25. We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.
Megan McKenna
#26. If you think along the lines of Nature then you think properly."
from the video "Carl Jung speaks about death
C. G. Jung
#27. Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#28. There is always something pleasantly exciting about death - when it is reasonably far away from you.
Einar H. Kvaran
#30. They teach you how to handle life in England, but they don't teach you a thing about death. There's no book telling you what to do when your mum or dad dies.
Ozzy Osbourne
#31. Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical.
William Empson
#32. They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy.
Milan Kundera
#33. During those last weeks of the Bishop's life he thought very little about death; it was the Past he was leaving. The future would take care of itself.
Willa Cather
#34. We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.
Michel De Montaigne
#35. When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.
Bodhidharma
#36. Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
Ingmar Bergman
#37. I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
Elayne Boosler
#38. Soon I will honor my parents by dying as they died. and if all they believed about death was true, soon I will join them in whatever comes next.
Veronica Roth
#39. They die, but no one's really asked us. No one's asked what we've been through. What we saw. No one wants to hear about death. About what scares them. But I was telling you about love. About my love . . . Lyudmilla
Svetlana Alexievich
#40. Obviously, I care about the kids. Family, all that sort of stuff. But really, I don't care about life, don't care about death. Nothing. That's the kind of man you are dealing with. That's why I can't be beaten.
Tyson Fury
#41. We don't like to think about death; yet, worldwide, 3 people die every second, 180 every minute, and nearly 11,000 every hour. If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250,000 people every day go either to Heaven or Hell.9 David said, "Show me, O Lord, my
Randy Alcorn
#42. Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
Orlando Bloom
#43. And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death
but it's more peaceful.
Leo Tolstoy
#44. For one of the odd things about death, Trudy has discovered, is that in its wake one must go about business as usual; it seems heartless and wrong, but now that the rituals of mourning have been attended to, the sole task left to Trudy is to try and comprehend the enormity of thes sudden change.
Jenna Blum
#45. I've always been fascinated by dark subjects, especially people's reactions to them. Why are people so uncomfortable talking about death if everyone dies?
Anthony Jeselnik
#46. I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion.
Holly Black
#47. I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.
Emir Kusturica
#48. Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.
David Gemmell
#49. i'm not worried about death, my biggest concern is not living enough while alive..
R H Sin
#50. There was a lot they didn't tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
Stephen King
#52. Today, girls,' said Miss Renshaw, 'we shall go out into the beautiful Gardens and think about death.
Ursula Dubosarsky
#53. You realize that however much you don't think about death - or think that's for other people - you're just an organism living from day to day. I'm just grateful I'm here.
Robin Gibb
#54. I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#55. Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.
Terry Pratchett
#56. We wanted to talk about death in the DC Universe, and how some people go to get a pass and come back, and some people didn't. That opened up a whole other topic about legacy. We wanted to talk about what was required to be a hero, what were the elements of true heroism?
Greg Rucka
#57. Oh, yes -- very easy to talk about death, but not so easy to manage the dying.
Radclyffe Hall
#58. The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
Sue Grafton
#59. When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
Morrissey
#60. I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.
Ritchie Blackmore
#61. The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
Andre Malraux
#62. All the questions asked about death are wrongly put.
Nanamoli Thera
#63. People sometimes find Buddhism pessimistic, saying there is too much talk about death. It's essential to understand that Buddhists don't contemplate death because they are morbid or depressed; they focus on death, mortality, and human frailty as a means of better understanding and appreciating life.
Lama Surya Das
#64. At school you were taught about chemicals in test tubes, equations to describe motion, and maybe something on photosynthesis - about which more later - but in all likelihood you were taught nothing about death, risk, statistics, and the science of what will kill or cure you.
Ben Goldacre
#65. While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead ... While you do not know life, how can you know about death
Confucius
#66. Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're going to die, too. This is serious. Fuck fuck fuck.
Elisa Albert
#67. Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.
Eda LeShan
#68. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
Woody Allen
#69. I definitely think about death. And every day your relationship with death changes. And every day I sort of feel like I know it more. I've always thought about it.
Damien Hirst
#70. I don't really think I am interested in the macabre, but I am curious about death. That's normal ... The only certainty in life is that we're all going to die. It would be unnatural not to think about death once in a while.
Andres Serrano
#71. But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start getting infected by this constant fear all around. Everybody is afraid of death. People don't even want to talk about death.
Rajneesh
#72. I think about death all the time. I know there's nothing out there, but I'm curious. There's a 300 billion-to-one chance that there might be an energy that goes somewhere else, but I doubt it.
David Bailey
#73. And another regrettable thing about death is the ceasing of your own brand of magic, which took a whole life to develop and market - the quips, the witticisms, the slant adjusted to a few, those loved ones nearest the lip of the stage . . . - JOHN UPDIKE, "Perfection Wasted
Carole Radziwill
#74. Only comedians can talk about death, life, God and Virgin Mary. If I was a tragic actor, I couldn't allow myself. But with this accent I can do it. I can talk with death in person because I am a clown. Yes. And I am proud to be a clown - very much.
Roberto Benigni
#75. Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it.
Tom Stoppard
#76. So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
Harold Brodkey
#77. How the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#78. There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.
Angelina Jolie
#79. I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.
Tony Benn
#80. It isn't death, pain, exile or anything else you care to mention that accounts for the way we act, only our opinion about death, pain and the rest.
Epictetus
#81. Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?"
"Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.
Cassandra Clare
#82. All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too.
Gabrielle Zevin
#83. I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.
Richard Simmons
#84. As much as I hungered to learn more about my past, I was afraid of learning other things too
mostly about death and despair, and dark corners of the globe. I prayed that those memories wouldn't come back to me, because I felt in my bones that some things were too frightening to remember.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#85. The answer of life struggles in between two kinds of people-
those who live to dream
and those who dream to live
Ask them the question about death
if they can truly conceive
Munia Khan
#86. If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease ... Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake the following morning. They should feel the same about their lives.
Richard Matheson
#88. If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Sivananda Saraswati
#89. For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Susan Sontag
#90. There was one reviewer from the 'New York Times,' I forget his name, who said I was 'death warmed over.' I wrote him back that I knew more about death than he did. The 'Times' fired him, put him in the cooking department!
James Rosenquist
#91. But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.
Robert Jay Lifton
#92. I talk alot about death so I should do it soon ... Maybe under the cold breeze of a bluish moon
Vinnie Paz
#93. I've always been a little skittish about death. On certain days I'm okay with it. On other days it's like, "Really? I have to? No, man, not me."
Charlie Sheen
#95. That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.
Marie Dressler
#96. He now understood deathbed dramas. Everybody thinks about death. But only one person thinks about it for himself. The others know that in the morning the sun will come through the blinds and their coffee will be served." From "The Reckoning
Georges Simenon
#97. For Her Ugliness loved stories full of darkness. She didn't want to be told tales of good fortune and beauty, she liked to hear about death, ugly things, secrets heavy with tears. She wanted her very own world, and it had never heard of beauty and good fortune.
Cornelia Funke
#98. The apostolic church thought more about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ than about death and heaven. The early Christians were looking, not for a cleft in the ground called a grave but for a cleavage in the sky called Glory.
Alexander MacLaren
#99. I think about death sometimes. Analytically, of course.
Lynne Truss
#100. The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.
Emil M. Cioran
