In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. — Carlos Castaneda
Here I am... Wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end -- that there is such a thing as death. — Leo Tolstoy
DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. — Terry Pratchett
You will not finish your to-do list. Not the one for today, and not the one for your life.
Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken. — Hans Christian Andersen
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
A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
No one escapes from life alive. — Michael Crichton
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. — Tennessee Williams
We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there. — Warsan Shire
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. — Dave Barry
Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day… — Mary Downing Hahn
Your body is already decomposing. Your cells are dying faster than you can replace them.
Everyone's immortal until they're not. — V.E. Schwab
You are dying at exactly the same speed as everyone else: one day at a time.
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. — George Orwell
We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, as you are now so once was I, as I am so will you be... — Tana French
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can. — Yann Martel
John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death. — Richard Castle
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. — Italian Proverb
The meat you are made of is expiring.
Death was for the other people. — Agatha Christie
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. — Voltaire
Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come — William Shakespeare
Why so much grief for me? No man will hurl me down to Death, against my fate. And fate? No one alive has ever escaped it, neither brave man nor coward, I tell you - it’s born with us the day that we are born. — Homer
Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below. — Isaac Marion
The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream. — Don DeLillo
The things you are putting off will eventually put themselves off, permanently.
We are all the fools of time and terror: days steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, loathing our life, and dreading still to die. — Byron
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten. — Samuel Beckett
Everything that happens before Death is what counts. — Ray Bradbury
You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same. — Kurt Vonnegut
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth. — Sylvia Plath
Your handwriting will be the last thing to fade.
Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one's ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone - the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there's no fairness on earth. — Svetlana Aleksievich
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. — George R.R. Martin
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
One day your name will be spoken for the last time and no one will notice.
Death should take me while I am in the mood. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down. — Guy de Maupassant
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. — Emil Cioran
But eyes couldn’t stay closed forever, unless one was dead. And the dead never dreamed. — Hafsah Faizal
Every mirror you look into is showing you something temporary.
We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence. — Virginia Woolf
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. — Fernando Pessoa
That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead. — José Saramago
You are a temporary arrangement of atoms that will soon be rearranged.
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. — Haruki Murakami
You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is. — Ernest Cline
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them. — Arthur Schnitzler
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it. — Margaret Atwood
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost; Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. — William Shakespeare
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, whatever years be behind us are in death's hands. — Seneca
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn. — Joanne Harris
I hope you are spending your time wisely.
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. — Don DeLillo
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. — Michael Cunningham
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. — Guy de Maupassant
Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning. — Paulo Coelho
Every breath is one fewer remaining.
Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long. — Markus Zusak
Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it. — José Saramago
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. — Hermann Hesse
Men die. It's practically what they're for. — Catherynne M. Valente
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other... Except through faith. — Stephen King
All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical. — Leila Aboulela
If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. — Terry Pratchett
Death often is the point of life's joke. — Vladimir Nabokov
Death must exist for life to have meaning. — Neal Shusterman
The house you grew up in will forget you.
There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another. — Charlie Kaufman
I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. — William Faulkner
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes write sorrow on the bosom of the earth, Let's choose executors and talk of wills — William Shakespeare
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go — Richard Adams
I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. — Robert Jordan
Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem — Cecelia Ahern
Beware: at war or at peace, more people die of unenlightened self-interest than of any other disease. — Octavia Butler
You've already forgotten most of the days you've lived.
Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived. — Jostein Gaarder
'She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.' — Ursula K. Le Guin
Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. — Terry Pratchett
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget. — Mary Roach
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. — Sherman Alexie
The only certainty is death. — Guy de Maupassant
I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated. — Erika Johansen
As human beings, we're born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken. — Shaun David Hutchinson
So wise so young, they say, do never live long. — William Shakespeare
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. — Irvin D. Yalom
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived. — Madeleine L'Engle
When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions. — Dan Brown
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground. — Virginia Woolf
Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible. — Leo Tolstoy
Nox didn’t say a word. He waited, counting the seconds in his mind. Sometimes you counted bullets and sometimes you counted time. Either one could kill you. — Dean F. Wilson
Time and death sleep side by side. — Garth Nix
Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever. — Ernest Becker
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily. — Cassandra Clare
He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead. — Søren Kierkegaard
...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along. — Mark Z. Danielewski
Everyone you love is going to die, and you cannot predict the order.
Of all the wonders that I have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. — William Shakespeare
There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless. — Kathy Acker
Pulvis et umbra sumus. — Horace
Death is not a checkmate... It is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen. — Catherynne M. Valente
Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do. — Lauren Oliver
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time. — Banana Yoshimoto
He's spending a year dead for tax reasons. — Douglas Adams
In the middle of life, death comes to take your measurements. The visit is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit is being sewn on the sly. — Tomas Tranströmer
We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. — Graham Greene
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower. — Terry Pratchett
He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die. — Ian McEwan
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
I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day. — Osamu Dazai
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible. — Robert Goolrick
That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive. — Haruki Murakami
It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong! — Leo Tolstoy
I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me — they’re cramming for their final exam. — George Carlin
One day you will think your last thought and you won't know it's your last.
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live -- moreover, the only one. — E. M. Cioran
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on. — Samuel Beckett
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive — Stanley Kubrick
In 150 years, no one currently alive will exist.
Now comes the mystery! (last words) — Henry Ward Beecher
So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family. — George Carlin
The gods seldom give but so quickly take. — Charles Bukowski
In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive. — Roman Payne
Our knowledge of life is limited to death — Enrich Maria Remarque
Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. — Edgar Allen Poe
What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone. — Eckhart Tolle
Death always wins. — Kelly Creagh
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train. — Robert Lowell
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying — Thomas Paine
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. — Franz Kafka
A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die. — Bernard Berenson
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; — William Cullen Bryant
The sun will rise on a day you are not part of.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. — Vladimir Nabokov
Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths. — George R.R. Martin
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death. — Alexandre Dumas
Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your skeleton is wet right now. One day it will be dry.
By daily dying, I have come to be. — Theodore Roethke
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying. — Don DeLillo
The trees you planted will watch you leave.
Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does? — Jasper Fforde
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? — Virginia Woolf
Aren't you afraid of dying? Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it. — Haruki Murakami
There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. — T.S. Eliot
The only certainty life contains is death. — Patricia Briggs
How quickly he fell; how soon it was over. — Donna Tartt
Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing. — Linda Howard
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call. — Sylvia Plath
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. — Isabel Allende
Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. It's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts. — Lauren Oliver
Nothing is certain but death and taxes. - Benjamin Franklin
He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year. — Terry Pratchett
That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner. — Samuel Johnson
Life is too short when you think of the length of death — Sean Mangan
Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source. — Osho
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? — Epicurus
The worms will eat you just the same whether you spent today worried or content.
Stand before his grave and use your gift of breath to complain of your limited time. If you dare. — Lois McMaster Bujold
I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink. — Shaun David Hutchinson
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. — Chuck Palahniuk
There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead. — Nicole Krauss
The clothes you're wearing will outlast you.
It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen. — Terry Pratchett
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die. — HP Lovecraft
Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back. — Marcus Aurelius
Remember, you are going to die.
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. — Ernest Hemingway
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain - Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies - The Flower that once has blown forever dies. — Omar Khayyam
That is death - shifting from "is" to "was. — Veronica Roth
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life. — Mario Benedetti
I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'. — Jean-Paul Sartre
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day. — William Shakespeare
Everyone owes nature a death. — Sigmund Freud
It could happen at any moment.
The dead are way more organized than the living. — China Miéville
Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE? "Yes. Yes, of course." Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG. — Terry Pratchett
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. — Terry Pratchett
Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! — Thomas Mann
Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why. — Glen Cook
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. — La Rochefoucauld
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death. — Tom Robbins
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying. — Richard Yates
Death as the destruction of all things no longer had meaning when life was revealed to be a fatuous sequence of empty words, the hollow jingle of a jester’s cap and bells. — Michel Foucault
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead. — W. Somerset Maugham
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life. — Terry Pratchett
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going. — John Green
You are closer to your death than you were when you started reading this.
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard. — Tom Robbins
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives. — A. Sachs
Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable. — Colleen Hoover
The books on your shelf will outlive you.
"We never actively remember death," Odenigbo said."The reason we live as we do is because we do not remember that we will die. We will all die." — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely? — George Carlin
A man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: "where are you going, my friend?" And the condemned man replied: "I'm not going anywhere. They're taking me by force." — José Saramago
The internet will keep your data long after you can't use it.
"THERE IS NO JUSTICE", said Death. "JUST ME" — Terry Pratchett
Death has this much to be said for it: you don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be, they bring it to you —- free. — Kingsley Amis
All live to die, and rise to fall. — Christopher Marlowe
Death's an old story, but new for each person. — Ivan Turgenev
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. — Mark Twain
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE. — Terry Pratchett
It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. — Lemony Snicket
Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life — D. Aswini
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying. — Lauren DeStefano
You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair. — Audrey Niffenegger
Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death. — Haruki Murakami
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. — David M. Eagleman
No one here gets out alive. — Jim Morrison
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it. — Rohinton Mistry
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies.. — Jon Krakauer
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. — Isabel Allende
Your last meal will probably be unremarkable.
Somewhere, a clock is ticking that you can't hear.
The meaning of life is that it stops. — Franz Kafka
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? — Edgar Allan Poe
You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road. — Natalie Babbitt
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. — Clarence Darrow
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable. — Jasper Fforde
What does he say?' he asked.'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.''Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. — Gabriel García Márquez
Some fail to bear in mind that everyone is sentenced to death. Death is a treacherous virus that strikes randomly. The only truth is that nobody is going to make it out alive. We are all living on probation and our expiry date is indefinite. — Erik Pevernagie
I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. — Epicurus
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him. — John Gunther
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. — Fran Lebowitz
I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it. — Don DeLillo
It was the meanest moment of eternity. — Zora Neale Hurston
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson
Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
In the midst of life, we are in death. — Agatha Christie
In fact living is dying. — Guy de Maupassant
Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going — Hlovate
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Our life is made by the death of others. — Leonardo da Vinci
Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. — Ernest Hemingway
The one close to me now, even my own body - these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions. — Izumi Shikibu
You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. — Ian Fleming
Well, Death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you — Charles Bukowski
We are all walking towards the same cliff-edge.
Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, victim of your folly. — Frank Herbert
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die. — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Make death proud to take us. — William Shakespeare
Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat. — José Saramago
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity. — Edvard Munch
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. — E.B. White
Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. — E.L. Doctorow
You have fewer days left than you think, and you're spending one of them right now.
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave, gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made. — Mitch Albom
Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same... They can be neither separated, nor mixed. — Ursula K. Le Guin
And death doesn't wait for you when you're rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when you're exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight — Lili St. Crow
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it. — Jonathan Stroud
We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long — Stephen King
Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas. — Jasper Fforde
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students. — Hector Berlioz
Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die. — John Green
Most of the universe doesn't know you exist. Soon, none of it will.
Most things may never happen: this one will. — Philip Larkin