quotations about death
Death was far more certain than God.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Quiet American
Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Works of Love
He that begins to live, begins to die.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Hieroglyphics
Death is the end of one story and the beginning of another.
PHILIP MOELLER
Helena's Husband
With death comes honesty.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Satanic Verses
I don't like tombstones. They're like bookends to spent lives, trapping the person inside.
ELIZABETH DANIELS
"A Rose in the Willow Garden", Red Velvet and Absinthe
That which we call Death is but a pause of suspension; and in truth a progress to life, only our thoughts look downwards upon the body, and not upwards upon things to come.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine