Death Quote by Anthony Doerr

“Death was a release, in so many ways. An end to suffering. An escape to something else. What that something else was, I didn’t…

— Jennifer Estep

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy

“He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing else.”

— Anne Rice

“With horror he perceived that, by uniting himself as he had with the dead, he had cut himself off from the living. Stripped of…

— Anonymous

“What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?”

— Elin Hilderbrand

“He thought of death, in that gap between the beginning of a step and its completion, and at the end of the step he…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Now death was a place, a place to which people disappeared forever when they died, a place that gradually sucked away the clarity of…

— Barry Eisler

“There a painless death awaits him who can no longer bear the sorrows of this life. If death is welcome let him seek it…

— Robert W. Chambers

“He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition for him…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Everyone here now is going to die. But really no one knows what death is really like. Maybe we just take on another part…

— Art Hochberg

“Back then, living hadn't had any meaning. Every so often, without any warning or any real reason, he'd even caught himself thinking, 'Maybe I'll…

— Yukako Kabei

“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still lurks unconquered.”

— Robert E. Howard