Death Quotes

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

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?

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.

You fuck - you ate my cat!

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

He: What’s the matter with you? Me: Nothing. Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, but there was nothing the matter with her.

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation. [As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.

We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may forget us, but it doesn't matter. Because we are the ants, and we'll keep marching on.

I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.

Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

La tristesse durera toujours. [The sadness will last forever.]

Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.

in this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck