Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can. — Yann Martel

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. — Samuel Beckett

We think of mortality so little these days... I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones. Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by, as you are now so once was I, as I am so will you be... — Tana French

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. — George Orwell

You are dying at exactly the same speed as everyone else: one day at a time.

Everyone's immortal until they're not. — V.E. Schwab

Your body is already decomposing. Your cells are dying faster than you can replace them.

Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day… — Mary Downing Hahn

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. — Dave Barry

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there. — Warsan Shire

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. — Tennessee Williams

No one escapes from life alive. — Michael Crichton

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken. — Hans Christian Andersen

You will not finish your to-do list. Not the one for today, and not the one for your life.

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. — Terry Pratchett

Here I am... Wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end -- that there is such a thing as death. — Leo Tolstoy

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. — Carlos Castaneda

Most things may never happen: this one will. — Philip Larkin

Most of the universe doesn't know you exist. Soon, none of it will.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die. — John Green

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students. — Hector Berlioz

Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas. — Jasper Fforde

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long — Stephen King

Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it. — Jonathan Stroud

And death doesn't wait for you when you're rested and ready. It sneaks up on you when you're exhausted and hungry and cold and so scared you can't even see straight — Lili St. Crow

Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same... They can be neither separated, nor mixed. — Ursula K. Le Guin

It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made. — Mitch Albom

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave, gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

You have fewer days left than you think, and you're spending one of them right now.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours. — E.L. Doctorow

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. — E.B. White

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity. — Edvard Munch

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat. — José Saramago

Make death proud to take us. — William Shakespeare

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die. — Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, victim of your folly. — Frank Herbert

We are all walking towards the same cliff-edge.

Well, Death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you — Charles Bukowski

You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy. — Ian Fleming

The one close to me now, even my own body - these too will soon become clouds, floating in different directions. — Izumi Shikibu

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. — Ernest Hemingway

Our life is made by the death of others. — Leonardo da Vinci

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going — Hlovate

In fact living is dying. — Guy de Maupassant

In the midst of life, we are in death. — Agatha Christie

Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson