Death Poems Quotes

“When you’re on your last legs, whether you’re confined to a bed or screaming in a crashed-up car, many things may occur to you. Something that won’t occur to you, either confined to a bed or screaming, is that it doesn’t matter what you did or didn’t do during your existence.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Death Poems

“The most crucial matter in this world
is to offer those who wish an exit
a place to turn, a helping hand.
You were not born by yourself,
Why must you vanish that way?”
― Thomas Ligotti, Death Poems

“the finale is always the same: simple heart failure. And all the time you thought that life was so complex.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Death Poems

“But that is the way of the body. You are bound to surrender to its most eccentric turns.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Death Poems

“just in case you’re not around next year: happy birthday.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Death Poems

“Only after everyone who ever remembered you is gone for good and all does the terrible insanity that once bore your name achieve a true oblivion. Good-bye.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Death Poems