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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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Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
- Mira Grant
Feed
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Love doesn't always mean rings and veils and walks down the aisle.
Sometimes love means broken windows and broken hearts,
and not being able to fix either.
And sometimes love means telling you,
there's no such thing as time in Heaven so don't rush to meet me.
Stay a while, and pick, girl, the roses.
- Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Girl Unmoored
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I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat—oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to feel. I will be all dirty from clutching at this stupid planet, and the gods will laugh at me.
- Peter S. Beagle
The Folk of the Air
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In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.
- Loretta Ellsworth
In a Heartbeat
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Trying to show that you have mental illness to somebody who’s never had it is like trying to describe a new color to the colorblind
- Simmy Kors
The Zenas Cure
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I wonder why the dead can't talk, look at all the crimes we'd solve if the damn dead would just Ouija board us our answers, or tell all those weird psychic people who killed 'em.
- Vera Jane Cook
Pleasant Day
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The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.
- Benjamin R. Smith
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But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you: is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?
Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?
Is it really so much worse than what you do?
Think about it.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
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She'd made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do so, and I realized, far too late, that though I never did or could have loved her as she might have wished, I should have loved her more.
- Kevin Hearne
Hunted
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
- William Penn
More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.
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Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
- Anita Diamant
The Red Tent
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O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
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You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest
- L.A. Meyer
Bloody Jack
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Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)
- Santa Teresa de Jesús
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She glanced around at the tombstones. “You’re surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job.”
“You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of past generations influencing the future ones.
- David Baldacci
The Collectors
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the wages
of dying is love.
- Galway Kinnell
A New Selected Poems
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Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
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Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'

And so we did.
- Jim Beaver
Life's That Way
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You smile upon your friend to-day,
To-day his ills are over;
You hearken to the lover's say,
And happy is the lover.

'Tis late to hearken, late to smile,
But better late than never:
I shall have lived a little while
Before I die for ever.
- A.E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad
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Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from the Underground / The Gambler
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..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;
- Robin Becker
Brains: A Darkly Humorous Zombie Fantasy – The Sentient Professor's Memoir
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The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
- Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned
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We do not play on Graves—
Because there isn't Room—
Besides—it isn't even—it slants
And People come—

And put a Flower on it—
And hang their faces so—
We're fearing that their Hearts will drop—
And crush our pretty play—

And so we move as far
As Enemies—away—
Just looking round to see how far
It is—Occasionally—
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Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
- Mira Grant
Feed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn't always mean rings and veils and walks down the aisle.
Sometimes love means broken windows and broken hearts,
and not being able to fix either.
And sometimes love means telling you,
there's no such thing as time in Heaven so don't rush to meet me.
Stay a while, and pick, girl, the roses.
- Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Girl Unmoored
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat—oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to feel. I will be all dirty from clutching at this stupid planet, and the gods will laugh at me.
- Peter S. Beagle
The Folk of the Air
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In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.
- Loretta Ellsworth
In a Heartbeat
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Trying to show that you have mental illness to somebody who’s never had it is like trying to describe a new color to the colorblind
- Simmy Kors
The Zenas Cure
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I wonder why the dead can't talk, look at all the crimes we'd solve if the damn dead would just Ouija board us our answers, or tell all those weird psychic people who killed 'em.
- Vera Jane Cook
Pleasant Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.
- Benjamin R. Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you: is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?
Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?
Is it really so much worse than what you do?
Think about it.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
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She'd made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do so, and I realized, far too late, that though I never did or could have loved her as she might have wished, I should have loved her more.
- Kevin Hearne
Hunted
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
- William Penn
More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
- Anita Diamant
The Red Tent
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest
- L.A. Meyer
Bloody Jack
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)
- Santa Teresa de Jesús
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She glanced around at the tombstones. “You’re surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job.”
“You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of past generations influencing the future ones.
- David Baldacci
The Collectors
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the wages
of dying is love.
- Galway Kinnell
A New Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'

And so we did.
- Jim Beaver
Life's That Way
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You smile upon your friend to-day,
To-day his ills are over;
You hearken to the lover's say,
And happy is the lover.

'Tis late to hearken, late to smile,
But better late than never:
I shall have lived a little while
Before I die for ever.
- A.E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from the Underground / The Gambler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;
- Robin Becker
Brains: A Darkly Humorous Zombie Fantasy – The Sentient Professor's Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
- Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We do not play on Graves—
Because there isn't Room—
Besides—it isn't even—it slants
And People come—

And put a Flower on it—
And hang their faces so—
We're fearing that their Hearts will drop—
And crush our pretty play—

And so we move as far
As Enemies—away—
Just looking round to see how far
It is—Occasionally—
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing?
- Mira Grant
Feed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn't always mean rings and veils and walks down the aisle.
Sometimes love means broken windows and broken hearts,
and not being able to fix either.
And sometimes love means telling you,
there's no such thing as time in Heaven so don't rush to meet me.
Stay a while, and pick, girl, the roses.
- Jennifer Gooch Hummer
Girl Unmoored
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat—oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to feel. I will be all dirty from clutching at this stupid planet, and the gods will laugh at me.
- Peter S. Beagle
The Folk of the Air
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That cake tasted good. But the cake in the garbage tasted better. It was the best cake I ever ate.
- Loretta Ellsworth
In a Heartbeat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Trying to show that you have mental illness to somebody who’s never had it is like trying to describe a new color to the colorblind
- Simmy Kors
The Zenas Cure
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wonder why the dead can't talk, look at all the crimes we'd solve if the damn dead would just Ouija board us our answers, or tell all those weird psychic people who killed 'em.
- Vera Jane Cook
Pleasant Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.
- Benjamin R. Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you: is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?
Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?
Is it really so much worse than what you do?
Think about it.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She'd made life poignant for the Irish. The terror she inspired gave peace its serenity; the pain she caused gave health its lustre; her failure to love made me grateful for my ability to do so, and I realized, far too late, that though I never did or could have loved her as she might have wished, I should have loved her more.
- Kevin Hearne
Hunted
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
- William Penn
More Fruits of Solitude: Being the Second Part of Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.
- Anita Diamant
The Red Tent
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You've got to think of the fine times you had with your mate, not the moment of his perishin'. Every tear you shed now only wets his windin' sheet and disturbs his rest
- L.A. Meyer
Bloody Jack
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)
- Santa Teresa de Jesús
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She glanced around at the tombstones. “You’re surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job.”
“You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of past generations influencing the future ones.
- David Baldacci
The Collectors
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the wages
of dying is love.
- Galway Kinnell
A New Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
- William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'

And so we did.
- Jim Beaver
Life's That Way
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You smile upon your friend to-day,
To-day his ills are over;
You hearken to the lover's say,
And happy is the lover.

'Tis late to hearken, late to smile,
But better late than never:
I shall have lived a little while
Before I die for ever.
- A.E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from the Underground / The Gambler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
..the nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids;
- Robin Becker
Brains: A Darkly Humorous Zombie Fantasy – The Sentient Professor's Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her.
- Anne Rice
The Queen of the Damned
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We do not play on Graves—
Because there isn't Room—
Besides—it isn't even—it slants
And People come—

And put a Flower on it—
And hang their faces so—
We're fearing that their Hearts will drop—
And crush our pretty play—

And so we move as far
As Enemies—away—
Just looking round to see how far
It is—Occasionally—
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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