quotations about death
With death comes honesty.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Satanic Verses
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
JOHN LENNON
attributed, Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History
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
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
Death is one dream out of another flowing.
CONRAD AIKEN
The House of Dust