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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 long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air…
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?
- Kelly Braffet
Last Seen Leaving
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Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.
- Brennan Manning
The Ragamuffin Gospel
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Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.
- Linda Howard
Kill and Tell
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We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
- Stephen King
The Green Mile
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but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.
- Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.
- Joan Didion
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...Opal is dead, and I don't see how a healer can change that! It's not something to joke about."
Joke?" Then Owen hit his forehead and cried, "That's right, you haven't heard!"
Heard what?" asked Adrien, who felt an insane glimmer of hope return to his heart.
Death is on strike! She hasn't done that for two centuries, and it's very annoying. Your friend is alive."
Very annoying?" repeated Amber. "I don't see what's so annoying about a miracle! What is Death on strike for?"
Everyone knows that Death lives in Fairytale-in an inaccessible area, obviously. And just a few hours ago, she decided to stop working. So, for now, no one can die.
- Flavia Bujor
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Everyone's immortal until they're not.
- V.E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
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I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Galápagos
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I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.

the death of life
before life
dies.
- Charles Bukowski
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
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There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.
- Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.
- Anna Carey
Eve
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În momentul ăla moartea mi s-a părut tristă. De fapt, nu moartea. Mai mult ideea de înmormântare. Tu mori, să zicem. Vin familia, prietenii cu tine până la cimitir, te bagă în pământ, ceea ce e OK, dar apoi te lasă acolo și pleacă. Fără lumină, fără nimic. Cu viermii. Iar pe ăia trebuie să îi aștepți câteva zile.
- Adrian Teleşpan
Cimitirul
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He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.
- Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter
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When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
- Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
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Love is the languid sigh of death, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
- Chelsea G. Summers
A Certain Hunger
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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- Jean Cocteau
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At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.
- Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
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Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as
the image of my father, whose life
was spent like this,
thinking of death, to the exclusion
of other sensual matters,
so in the end that life
was easy to give up, since
it contained nothing: even
my mother's voice couldn't make him
change or turn back
as he believed
that once you can't love another human being
you have no place in the world.
- Louise Glück
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Neville's a pleasant sort of standby when there's nothing more exciting on the go. A safe, attractive, reliable chap. He's respectful, never having tried to get her into bed which, if she was a better sort of person, she might appreciate.
- Lesley Glaister
A Particular Man
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I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.
- Ingrid Betancourt
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
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The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air…
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?
- Kelly Braffet
Last Seen Leaving
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Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.
- Brennan Manning
The Ragamuffin Gospel
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Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.
- Linda Howard
Kill and Tell
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We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
- Stephen King
The Green Mile
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but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.
- Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.
- Joan Didion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...Opal is dead, and I don't see how a healer can change that! It's not something to joke about."
Joke?" Then Owen hit his forehead and cried, "That's right, you haven't heard!"
Heard what?" asked Adrien, who felt an insane glimmer of hope return to his heart.
Death is on strike! She hasn't done that for two centuries, and it's very annoying. Your friend is alive."
Very annoying?" repeated Amber. "I don't see what's so annoying about a miracle! What is Death on strike for?"
Everyone knows that Death lives in Fairytale-in an inaccessible area, obviously. And just a few hours ago, she decided to stop working. So, for now, no one can die.
- Flavia Bujor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everyone's immortal until they're not.
- V.E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Galápagos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.

the death of life
before life
dies.
- Charles Bukowski
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.
- Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.
- Anna Carey
Eve
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
În momentul ăla moartea mi s-a părut tristă. De fapt, nu moartea. Mai mult ideea de înmormântare. Tu mori, să zicem. Vin familia, prietenii cu tine până la cimitir, te bagă în pământ, ceea ce e OK, dar apoi te lasă acolo și pleacă. Fără lumină, fără nimic. Cu viermii. Iar pe ăia trebuie să îi aștepți câteva zile.
- Adrian Teleşpan
Cimitirul
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He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.
- Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter
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When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
- Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
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Love is the languid sigh of death, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
- Chelsea G. Summers
A Certain Hunger
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The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- Jean Cocteau
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At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.
- Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as
the image of my father, whose life
was spent like this,
thinking of death, to the exclusion
of other sensual matters,
so in the end that life
was easy to give up, since
it contained nothing: even
my mother's voice couldn't make him
change or turn back
as he believed
that once you can't love another human being
you have no place in the world.
- Louise Glück
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Neville's a pleasant sort of standby when there's nothing more exciting on the go. A safe, attractive, reliable chap. He's respectful, never having tried to get her into bed which, if she was a better sort of person, she might appreciate.
- Lesley Glaister
A Particular Man
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I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.
- Ingrid Betancourt
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
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The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air…
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Miranda rolls her eyes. "Passing over," she says. "That's nice. Is that anything like kicking the bucket? Keeling over, taking a dirt nap, biting the big one?
- Kelly Braffet
Last Seen Leaving
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad a profound impact on my life. He said, "The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything." Never to be afraid of anything, even death, which, after all, is but that final breakthrough into the open, waiting, outstretched arms of Abba.
- Brennan Manning
The Ragamuffin Gospel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.
- Linda Howard
Kill and Tell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.
- Stephen King
The Green Mile
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall—falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves.
- Philip K. Dick
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.
- Joan Didion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...Opal is dead, and I don't see how a healer can change that! It's not something to joke about."
Joke?" Then Owen hit his forehead and cried, "That's right, you haven't heard!"
Heard what?" asked Adrien, who felt an insane glimmer of hope return to his heart.
Death is on strike! She hasn't done that for two centuries, and it's very annoying. Your friend is alive."
Very annoying?" repeated Amber. "I don't see what's so annoying about a miracle! What is Death on strike for?"
Everyone knows that Death lives in Fairytale-in an inaccessible area, obviously. And just a few hours ago, she decided to stop working. So, for now, no one can die.
- Flavia Bujor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everyone's immortal until they're not.
- V.E. Schwab
A Gathering of Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Galápagos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I can see where
creation often
stops while the
body still lives
and often
does not care
to.

the death of life
before life
dies.
- Charles Bukowski
Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain.
- Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I loved my mother too,' I said. 'I still do. That's the thing - it never goes away, even if the person does.
- Anna Carey
Eve
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
În momentul ăla moartea mi s-a părut tristă. De fapt, nu moartea. Mai mult ideea de înmormântare. Tu mori, să zicem. Vin familia, prietenii cu tine până la cimitir, te bagă în pământ, ceea ce e OK, dar apoi te lasă acolo și pleacă. Fără lumină, fără nimic. Cu viermii. Iar pe ăia trebuie să îi aștepți câteva zile.
- Adrian Teleşpan
Cimitirul
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He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.
- Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.
- Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is the languid sigh of death, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.
- Chelsea G. Summers
A Certain Hunger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
- Jean Cocteau
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.
- Nicole Krauss
The History of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as
the image of my father, whose life
was spent like this,
thinking of death, to the exclusion
of other sensual matters,
so in the end that life
was easy to give up, since
it contained nothing: even
my mother's voice couldn't make him
change or turn back
as he believed
that once you can't love another human being
you have no place in the world.
- Louise Glück
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Neville's a pleasant sort of standby when there's nothing more exciting on the go. A safe, attractive, reliable chap. He's respectful, never having tried to get her into bed which, if she was a better sort of person, she might appreciate.
- Lesley Glaister
A Particular Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.
- Ingrid Betancourt
Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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