Always Quote by Will Self

There is no metaphor for death. All comparisons are odious, but I'll do one anyway. We all have these moments of harsh clarity where…

— John Hodgman

Are not the thoughts of the dying often turned towards the practical, painful, obscure, visceral aspect, towards the "seamy side" of death which is,…

— Marcel Proust

Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are…

— Aldous Huxley

“It is when death is rendered graphically, is televised so to speak, that you sense an eerie separation between your condition and yourself. A…

— Don DeLillo

When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive…

— John Green

“Furthermore, as the body suffers the horrors of disease and the pangs of pain, so we see the mind stabbed with anguish, grief and…

— Lucretius

But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ship s sink, or maybe we're grass--our…

— John Green

I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges…

— Vachel Lindsay

“How do we know that dying is so dreadful? Who knows whether in our human fear and anguish, we are only shivering and shuddering…

— Eric Metaxas

Religion sees death as a journey to a surreal paradise. I see death as the end of all good and evil.

— Jeremy Limn

“When the commonplace "We must all die" transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness "I must die-- and soon," then death grapples us, and…

— George Eliot

Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

— Sogyal Rinpoche