DEATH QUOTES XIII

quotations about death

Death ends at last the fear of it.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

IRVIN D. YALOM

interview, Wise Counsel


Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

D. H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers


My only fear of death is reincarnation.

TUPAC SHAKUR

"No More Pain"


Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret to life is to "die before you die"--and find that there is no death.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now


I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

ANTONIN ARTAUD

Selected Writings


Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

DON DELILLO

Underworld


Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

KATHERINE ANNE PORTER

Pale Horse


You still believe in death... that's just so... quaint. Well, sorry to pop your death bubble, but there's no such thing. So make the best of things. Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking. Don't waste good drugs on killing yourself. Share them with friends and have a party. Or send them to me.

CHUCK PALAHNIUK

The Independent Review, Mar. 25, 2004


There are always potential rogues who, seeing an opportunity, will flirt with death and then, at the very last moment, will be surprised to have met with it so easily.

PIERRE MAGNAN

The Messengers of Death


When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began to wish I had.

JAMES BALDWIN

Notes of a Native Son


Death ain't nothing but a fastball on the outside corner.

AUGUST WILSON

Fences


O, the one happiness, when, out of breath,
Our feet slip, and we stumble upon death!

ARTHUR SYMONS

"The Beggars"


Death will come and it will have your eyes.

CESARE PAVESE

Death Will Come and It Will Have Your Eyes


Any guy afraid to die was a guy who was afraid to live.

JOANN ROSS

No Safe Place


When I think of the joy awaiting,
Beyond the bier and the shroud,
Death seems but a transient shadow,
A passing Summer cloud.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"Summer Clouds"


How wonderful is Death,
Death and his brother Sleep!

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Queen Mab


Death or glory, death or glory
March forever in the sound and fury

MOTORHEAD

"Death or Glory"


There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship


Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.

BERTOLT BRECHT

The Mother