Death Quote by David Foster Wallace

“One of the deepest needs of the human soul is for centeredness . . . which confers meaning on the shapelessness of temporal existence.”

— William Everson

“In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same…

— Dag Hammarskjöld

“Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters.”

— Toba Beta

“The combination of our mortality with our groundlessness imparts to human life its pressing and enigmatic character. We struggle to in our brief time…

— Roberto Mangabeira Unger

“Whatever may be his [man's] true and final destination, there is a spirit within him at enmity with nothingness and dissolution (change and extinction).…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We all die and disappear, but that’s because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss. Our lives are just…

— Haruki Murakami

“(...) the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we…

— Thomas Ligotti

“We all see ourselves as the center of everything.”

— Chris Pavone

“Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Visible objects therefore do not perish utterly, since nature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of…

— Lucretius

We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most…

— Abraham Maslow