„The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief—that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never meditated nor intended. So they said to one another:“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.“
— James Baldwin
„We had spoken about death without being morbid about it and I had told Antonio what I thought about it which is worthless since none of us knows anything about it.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„But one only woke people if one knew what one wanted to say to them. And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up the thought and dismembered it said nothing. 'About life, about death; about Mrs Ramsay“
— Virginia Woolf
„There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?“
— Hunter S. Thompson
„The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment..[]“
— W.E.B. Du Bois