Death
Quotes - Death doesn't exist
“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, Looking for Alaska
“Death
doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of
it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking
of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a
stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.”
―
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Now
there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would
not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days
when you would have her no longer. Now you will often think of days past when
you had her. When you are used to this horrible thing that they will forever be
cast into the past, then you will gently feel her revive, returning to take her
place, her entire place, beside you. At the present time, this is not yet
possible. Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power ... that
has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will
always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a
kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be
consoled, that you will constantly remember more and more.”
―
Marcel Proust
“I
told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me," Will said, his bloody
hand on the hilt of the dagger. " And you are still with me. When I
breath, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago.
When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or
when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born again. I say
there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that
if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, if there is a river, you
will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so we can cross together."
Will took a deep breath and let go of the knife. He drew his hand back. The cut
on his palm was already healing- the result of the half dozen iratzes on his
skin. " You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the
divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever."
He
rose to his feet and looked down at the knife. The knife was Jem's, the blood
was his. This spot of ground, whether he could ever find it again, whether he
lived to try, would be theirs.
He
turned around to walk to Balios, towards Wales and Tessa. He did not look
back.”
―
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
You
were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you
“You
were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you
have always been.”
―
Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
“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, The Color of Magic
“Somebody,"
said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many
people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing
every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
―
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
“Our
lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Sleep
would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep
without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that
what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If
that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I
wouldn't mind that at all.”
―
Gayle Forman, If I Stay
“He
could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person
dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
―
Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
“The
evil that men do lives after them;
The
good is oft interred with their bones.”
―
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
“Son.
Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When
you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone
before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other
side.”
―
Jim Butcher, Dead Beat
“. .
. owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as
long as people do.”
―
John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
“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, The Iliad
“Now,
I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
― J.
Robert Oppenheimer
“I
would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy
content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna
can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime”
―
Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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, Poems of Fernando Pessoa
