W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

To have died once is enough.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

Death is a fearful thing.

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

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

I mean, death is a serious thing, certainly not to be sneezed at.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Death always seems to be around me.

You think that their dying is the worst thing that could happen. Then they stay dead.

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

It is only the dead who do not return.

The problem with death is absence

But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man's blood, there is no way to raise him up.

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

Never the grave gives back what it has won!

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

Once someone's dead you can't make them undead.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.