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Death is one of the few experiences that unites every human life, yet it remains deeply personal and profoundly mysterious. Across cultures, generations, and beliefs, writers, philosophers, and artists have tried to capture its meaning in words. The following quotes explore death from many angles—grief and acceptance, fear and peace, endings and new beginnings.   ◀ Back
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The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rather the church's revolutionary participation in the victory of Christ over those powers. The cross is not a symbol for general human suffering and oppression. Rather, the cross is a sign of what happens when one takes God's account of reality more seriously than Caesar's. The cross stands as God's (and our) eternal no to the powers of death, as well as God's eternal yes to humanity, God's remarkable determination not to leave us to our own devices.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
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I've been asked by lots of people, "What happens if you do kill yourself?" They want to know about what it would be like for other people around you, like the person who would find your body, the other kids at school, whoever would have to clean up the blood, what your family holidays would be like.
- Albert Borris
Crash Into Me
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Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
- J. M. McDermott
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There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.
- Ragnar Tornquist
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…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
- Homer
The Iliad
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Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
- Christopher Hitchens
Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports
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Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?
- Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden
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It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave.
- Walter de la Mare
The Return
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Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.
- Cristina Garcia
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
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Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
- Leonid Andreyev
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When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.
- Joseph Boyden
Through Black Spruce
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The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
- Rosie Thomas
Iris & Ruby
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When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones?
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality.
- Lionel Johnson
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I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
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With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.
- Luke Taylor
The Knight Ascendant
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Death was final and absolute and there was nothing anyone could do to change it.
- C.J. Tudor
The Chalk Man
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Ah earth you old extinguisher.
- Samuel Beckett
Happy Days
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The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.
- Carrie Ryan
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
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You smell so good,"
"No, I don't, I smell like death."
"You're crazy, you're not dead. You do not smell like death."
"I was dead a long time."
"And now you're not. Hence the alive smell.
- amy tintera
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A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.
- Flann O'Brien
The Third Policeman
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Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
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Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .
. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings
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Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
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The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rather the church's revolutionary participation in the victory of Christ over those powers. The cross is not a symbol for general human suffering and oppression. Rather, the cross is a sign of what happens when one takes God's account of reality more seriously than Caesar's. The cross stands as God's (and our) eternal no to the powers of death, as well as God's eternal yes to humanity, God's remarkable determination not to leave us to our own devices.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
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I've been asked by lots of people, "What happens if you do kill yourself?" They want to know about what it would be like for other people around you, like the person who would find your body, the other kids at school, whoever would have to clean up the blood, what your family holidays would be like.
- Albert Borris
Crash Into Me
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Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
- J. M. McDermott
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.
- Ragnar Tornquist
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…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
- Homer
The Iliad
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Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
- Christopher Hitchens
Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports
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Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?
- Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden
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It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave.
- Walter de la Mare
The Return
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Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.
- Cristina Garcia
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
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Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
- Leonid Andreyev
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When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.
- Joseph Boyden
Through Black Spruce
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The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
- Rosie Thomas
Iris & Ruby
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When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones?
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality.
- Lionel Johnson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.
- Luke Taylor
The Knight Ascendant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death was final and absolute and there was nothing anyone could do to change it.
- C.J. Tudor
The Chalk Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ah earth you old extinguisher.
- Samuel Beckett
Happy Days
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.
- Carrie Ryan
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You smell so good,"
"No, I don't, I smell like death."
"You're crazy, you're not dead. You do not smell like death."
"I was dead a long time."
"And now you're not. Hence the alive smell.
- amy tintera
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.
- Flann O'Brien
The Third Policeman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .
. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rather the church's revolutionary participation in the victory of Christ over those powers. The cross is not a symbol for general human suffering and oppression. Rather, the cross is a sign of what happens when one takes God's account of reality more seriously than Caesar's. The cross stands as God's (and our) eternal no to the powers of death, as well as God's eternal yes to humanity, God's remarkable determination not to leave us to our own devices.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've been asked by lots of people, "What happens if you do kill yourself?" They want to know about what it would be like for other people around you, like the person who would find your body, the other kids at school, whoever would have to clean up the blood, what your family holidays would be like.
- Albert Borris
Crash Into Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day.
- J. M. McDermott
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.
- Ragnar Tornquist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.
- Homer
The Iliad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
- Christopher Hitchens
Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cassandra wondered at the mind's cruel ability to toss up flecks of the past. Why, as she neared her life's end, her grandmother's head should ring with the voices of people long since gone. Was it always this way? Did those with passage booked on death's silent ship always scan the dock for faces of the long-departed?
- Kate Morton
The Forgotten Garden
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave.
- Walter de la Mare
The Return
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nobody is ready for death. If you ask Joe Blow on the street, he aint gonna tell you he thinks he'll live forever. But when the end is near you'll realize you've been believing that all along. It's like getting caught with your pants down. That's why you gotta live, little one. Yeah stop and smell them roses.
- Cristina Garcia
I Wanna Be Your Shoebox
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
- Leonid Andreyev
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I die, nieces, I want to be cremated, my ashes taken up in a bush plane and sprinkled onto the people in town below. Let them think my body is snowflakes, sticking in their hair and on their shoulders like dandruff.
- Joseph Boyden
Through Black Spruce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead do not harm us, only the alive.
- Rosie Thomas
Iris & Ruby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones?
- Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While death and darkness girdle me
I grope for immortality.
- Lionel Johnson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.
- Luke Taylor
The Knight Ascendant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death was final and absolute and there was nothing anyone could do to change it.
- C.J. Tudor
The Chalk Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ah earth you old extinguisher.
- Samuel Beckett
Happy Days
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.
- Carrie Ryan
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You smell so good,"
"No, I don't, I smell like death."
"You're crazy, you're not dead. You do not smell like death."
"I was dead a long time."
"And now you're not. Hence the alive smell.
- amy tintera
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.
- Flann O'Brien
The Third Policeman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.
- Bryant McGill
Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .
. . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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