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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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Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.
- Veronica Roth
Allegiant
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I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.
But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt.But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things:comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
- Mitch Albom
Have a Little Faith: a True Story
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It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.

And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.
- Marian Keyes
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
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Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?"
"I don't know. I don't think so."
"Then how do people recognize each other?"
"I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?
- R.J. Palacio
Wonder
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
- Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
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I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive.
- Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
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I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.
- Mitch Albom
For One More Day
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
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Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Inheritance Games
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In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
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We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?"
"Perfect timing.
- J.D. Robb
Glory in Death
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Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.
- Kevin Hearne
Hounded
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Tell me what it is like to die," I answered.
He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter."
"Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep."
"No. It is like every morning when you wake up.
- Martine Leavitt
Keturah and Lord Death
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Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
- Roger Zelazny
Prince of Chaos
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There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives."
"And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?"
"That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
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When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
- Jim Elliot
The Journals of Jim Elliot
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One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss.

Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imagination– which is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as well as how it'll be when I take your life from this world.
- Richelle Mead
Spirit Bound
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Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Laughing Corpse
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So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
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Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.
- John Corey Whaley
Where Things Come Back
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Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
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It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.
- Veronica Roth
Allegiant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.
But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt.But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things:comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
- Mitch Albom
Have a Little Faith: a True Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.

And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.
- Marian Keyes
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?"
"I don't know. I don't think so."
"Then how do people recognize each other?"
"I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?
- R.J. Palacio
Wonder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
- Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive.
- Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.
- Mitch Albom
For One More Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Inheritance Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?"
"Perfect timing.
- J.D. Robb
Glory in Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.
- Kevin Hearne
Hounded
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tell me what it is like to die," I answered.
He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter."
"Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep."
"No. It is like every morning when you wake up.
- Martine Leavitt
Keturah and Lord Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
- Roger Zelazny
Prince of Chaos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives."
"And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?"
"That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
- Jim Elliot
The Journals of Jim Elliot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss.

Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imagination– which is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as well as how it'll be when I take your life from this world.
- Richelle Mead
Spirit Bound
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Laughing Corpse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.
- John Corey Whaley
Where Things Come Back
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.
- Veronica Roth
Allegiant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I used to think I knew everything. I was a "smart person" who "got things done," and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even religion.
But I realized something as I drove home that night: that I am neither better nor smarter, only luckier. And I should be ashamed of thinking I knew everything, because you can know the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-no matter how smart or accomplished-they cry, they yearn, they hurt.But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things:comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.
- Mitch Albom
Have a Little Faith: a True Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.

And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.
- Marian Keyes
Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?"
"I don't know. I don't think so."
"Then how do people recognize each other?"
"I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?
- R.J. Palacio
Wonder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
- Omar Khayyam
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have been waiting for death all my life. I do not mean that I actively wish to die, just that I do not really want to be alive.
- Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hope you never hear those words. Your mom. She died. They are different than other words. They are too big to fit in your ears. They belong to some strange, heavy, powerful language that pounds away at the side of your head, a wrecking ball coming at you again and again, until finally, the words crack a hole large enough to fit inside your brain. And in so doing, they split you apart.
- Mitch Albom
For One More Day
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
- Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The Inheritance Games
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?"
"Perfect timing.
- J.D. Robb
Glory in Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.
- Kevin Hearne
Hounded
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tell me what it is like to die," I answered.
He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day," he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter."
"Yes," I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep."
"No. It is like every morning when you wake up.
- Martine Leavitt
Keturah and Lord Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
- Roger Zelazny
Prince of Chaos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives."
"And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?"
"That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing.
- Brandon Sanderson
The Way of Kings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!
- Jim Elliot
The Journals of Jim Elliot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because if I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss.

Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imagination– which is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as well as how it'll be when I take your life from this world.
- Richelle Mead
Spirit Bound
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.
- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Laughing Corpse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.
- George Carlin
Brain Droppings
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone with him. Stories about us could, from them on, be told from only one perspective. Memories could be told but not shared.
- John Corey Whaley
Where Things Come Back
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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