Death Quote by Rilke, Rainer Maria

“For me, death is the one appalling fact which defines life; unless you are constantly aware of it, you cannot begin to understand what…

— Julian Barnes

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live,

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

“To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.”

— Michael Foley

“Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to…

— Caitlin Doughty

“We each carry our own designated end within us, our very own death ripening at its own rate inside of us. There are insignificant…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of…

— Robert L. Wise

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun…

— James Baldwin

“The life of our bodies is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever deferred death…Every breath we draw wards off death that constantly impinges…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live

— Morrie Schwartz

“Now I see that if one doesn’t know how to die, one can hardly know how to live—because death is a part of life.”

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“It is an old complaint about the practice of medicine that it inures you to the idea of death. But when medicine inures you…

— Siddartha Mukherjee

“We've learned from this that death can hurt us. It can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us up a night.…

— John Corey Whaley