Ernst Toller Quotes

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

Death is an absolute marvel.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.

The common denominator of all my friends is that they're dead.

Death is a fearful thing.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.

We see death constantly on film.

To have died once is enough.

Perhaps grief is not about empty, but full. The full breath of life that includes death. The completeness, the cycles, the depth, the richness, the process, the continuity and the treasure of the moment that is gone the second you are aware of it.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

The past is buried and I mourn it with greater pain than many among you, because no human power can awaken it when the Crown itself has scattered ashes upon the coffin.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

God bless the dead.

Everybody's lost somebody, and I think they all miss them incredibly.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Passing away" is written on the world and all the world contains.

The problem with death is absence

the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.