Life And Death Quotes

The choices at the edge of everything.

These life and death quotes confront the weight of ultimate choices, including one that says choosing death without hesitation is sometimes the only option. Others admit that both have felt strangely absent from a life, tying closely to our Death quotes.


A few draw on fiction, from characters who exist outside the ordinary cycle to influences like Emily Dickinson's poetry on mortality. For more on decisive moments, see our Choose and Important quotes.