Quotes about "Death & Mortality"

I think most of us who live into our 50s have had a few experiences with death. You know, we see people we know start to die. We realize it's getting closer and closer for us. ”

Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever. ”

Divorce is probably as painful as death. ”

Death is an absolute marvel. ”

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. ”

And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment! ”

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion. ”

Death is a fearful thing. ”

The valiant never taste of death but once. ”

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. ”