quotations about death
With death comes honesty.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
The Satanic Verses
Death was far more certain than God.
GRAHAM GREENE
The Quiet American
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
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
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