Death Quote by William Shakespeare

Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.

— Phillis Wheatley

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life…

— Yann Martel

But there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“It was there, in the parlors of the funeral home---my daily stations with the local lately dead---that the darkness would often give way to…

— Thomas Lynch

Gloom is but a shadow of a cloud passing by

— Yann Martel

“Gray, desolate dread descends on me--a cloud of ash blocking the sun. A complete absence of light or warmth. A tangible, mold-scented obscurity. A…

— Jeff Zentner

“We can never comprehend the depths of gloom of night in the light of day".”

— Matthew Strecher

“The daylight changes the aspect of misery to us, as of everything else. In the night it presses on our imagination—the forms it takes…

— George Eliot

It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow…

— Robert Musil

“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that…

— Thomas Ligotti

that sunlight of the dead which is called literature.

— Marthe Bibesco

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

— Jean Paul