DEATH QUOTES XXVIII

quotations about death

There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.

ANNE ENRIGHT

The Gathering


He that begins to live, begins to die.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Hieroglyphics


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


Spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis.

NICHOLSON BAKER

The Anthologist


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


There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is.

THICH NHAT HANH

No Death


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