Death Quote by Paul Kalanithi

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

— Anonymous

“I have had a most shameful and distressing interview with poor dear Tom Eliot, who may be called dead to us all from this…

— Virginia Woolf

“Strange, rapid, disconnected thoughts passed through his mind. ‘Dead!’ Then: ‘They have killed him! . . .’ And an absurd notion about immortality, the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

“Bodies are visible hieroglyphs. Every body is an erotic metaphor, and the meaning of all these metaphors is always the same: death.”

— Octavio Paz

“After Death nothing is, and nothing, death, The utmost limit of a gasp of breath. Let the ambitious zealot lay aside His hopes of…

— John Wilmot

“Death lurks in the shadows, just out of view. Now and then I see his reaching hand, uncertain of the blurry image that passes…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“At night, forgotten words tried to reach me. I listened with my skin. Words tore my skin off, crept inside me, and nestled down.…

— Margarita Karapanou

“So far, in the room itself there had not been a sound. When the clock had struck ten, as it seemed to me, years…

— Richard Marsh

“Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave…

— W.H. Auden

“Legions of grotesques sweep under his hand; for has not nature too her grotesques—the rent rock, the distorting lights of evening on lonely roads,…

— Walter Pater

“But who, save the nerve-worn and sleepless, or thinkers standing with hands to the eyes on some crag above the multitude, see things thus…

— Virginia Woolf

“We were quite naturally unhappy; feeling a definite need, unbearably keen at moments, which was never to be satisfied. But that was recognizable pain,…

— Virginia Woolf