DEATH QUOTES XXVIII

quotations about death

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal.

JOSEPH ADDISON

The Spectator, Mar. 29, 1711


With death comes honesty.

SALMAN RUSHDIE

The Satanic Verses


The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.

TIM LEBBON

Fears Unnamed


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


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


Death is one dream out of another flowing.

CONRAD AIKEN

The House of Dust