Don DeLillo Quotes

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

No one gets out of here alive.

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Death is the only real elegance.

If not for Death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with Death, well, their lives will have meaning — a boundary beyond which the living cannot cross.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Any way, death is so final, isn't it? "Is it?" asked Richard. "Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels at thy slumb'ring heart: The wound is posting, O be wise, beware.

Death is the ultimate boundary of human matters.

Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning.

Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.

The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.