Death Quote by Mikhail Bulgakov

“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.”

— Jasper Fforde

“He now understood deathbed dramas. Everybody thinks about death. But only one person thinks about it for himself. The others know that in the…

— Georges Simenon

“Perhaps once we might be able to sneak a death past him. Immortal, yes, but not indestructible. I saw that when AM withdrew from…

— Harlan Ellison

“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a bullet in…

— Flannery O'Connor

“And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the people before…

— James Baldwin

“His mind remained freakishly pin-point sharp until his last days, but his body had shut-down a good six months before. He surprised his hospice…

— Stephen Joseph Mitskavich

“This obsession with death and suffering revealed itself in literature, poetry, art, and particularly in sculpture, with the appearance of cadaver tombs with an…

— Alison Weir

“He had been stricken with horror, not so much of death, as of life, without any knowledge of whence, and why, and how, and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Whenever in my dreams I see the dead, they always appear silent, bothered, strangely depressed, quite unlike their dear, bright selves. I am aware…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Samuel may have thought and played and philosophized about death, hut he did not really believe in it. His world did not have death…

— John Steinbeck

“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