Life’s End Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”

William Butler Yeats

Mortality’s Truth, Human Reflection, Life’s End, Hope, Fear, Acceptance

2. “A process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Rapid Aging, Forgotten Elderly, Family Neglect, Aging Process, Generational Shifts, Life’s End

3. “There had never been a death so foretold.”

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Foretold Fate, Inevitable Death, Prophecy, Existential Knowledge, Fate’s Certainty, Life’s End

4. “O Death, the Consecrator! Nothing so sanctifies a name As to be written – Dead. Nothing so wins a life from blame, So covers it from wrath and shame, As doth the burial-bed.”

Herman Melville

Death’s Power, Legacy And Death, Life’s End, Morality, Consequences, Burial

5. “Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?”

Herman Melville

Final Harbor, Life’s End, Ultimate Destination, Mortality, Harbor, Destiny

6. “Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.”

Charles Bukowski

Life’s End, Acceptance, Existential Thought, Death, End, Acceptance

7. “Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Jekyll’s Confession, Life’s End, Reflection, Transformation, Closure, Redemption

8. “Still, in the end, we all die just the same.”

Haruki Murakami

Universal Mortality, Life’s End, Equal Fate, Die, End, Mortality

9. “But that’s enough. Fun is fun and done is done. Turn out their lights, beautiful.”

Stephen King

End Of Fun, Finality, Life’s End, Closure, Humor, Letting Go

10. “He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?”

Stephen King

Death Reflection, Life’s End, Legacy, Mortality, Humor, Fate