TOPICS
SPEAKERS
HOME
BROWSE TOPICS
BROWSE SPEAKERS

QUOTES ABOUT DEATH

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
...
109
110
111
112
113
 		...
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.
- Max Lucado
Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.
- Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Rebirth always follows death.
- Neil Gaiman
Norse Mythology
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Ignorance is fatal.
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words
Topic: Death
One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
- Marissa Meyer
Heartless
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We know about the wildlife for God’s sake!” screamed Aideen. “We’re being attacked by a feckin’ pack of chimpanzees right now! Get us out of here!
- Steven Decker
The Balance of Time
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
- Clifford D. Simak
Way Station
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
- Kristin Cast
Hunted
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
It's not how you die. It's who you die.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.
No one should have gone through what we went through, but we did. And it kills me to think of it.
But I didn't love you like you loved me. I don't hate you for that. It just makes me sorry, that there isn't someone else who could love you better.
I know when you think about how I went, you'll get it. I was always uneasy about being alive. The idea of being dead makes me feel clear. When I think of it. It makes me think peace, peace, peace. It makes me happy. I am looking forward to it, to the absence of everything. And so I want you to be happy for me, that this is better for me. That I found what I needed. I know you won't be. But it's the last thing I want. You happy.
- Alexander Chee
Edinburgh
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
- Andrew Murray
Jesus Himself
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.
- Cheryl Strayed
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
In the end, living is defined by dying.
- Bernard Beckett
Genesis
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
- C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested.

The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid.

And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.
- Daniel Abraham
The Price of Spring
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills
Topic: Death
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
- Heinrich Heine
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.
- Leila Aboulela
Minaret
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We theorize that if these disruptions continue to happen, eventually the separate realities will begin to compete with our primary reality for dominance, and there will end up being no safe reality to live in.
- Steven Decker
The Balance of Time
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
- Alberto Manguel
The Library at Night
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.
- Richard Siken
War of the Foxes
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.
- Max Lucado
Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.
- Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Rebirth always follows death.
- Neil Gaiman
Norse Mythology
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Ignorance is fatal.
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words
Topic: Death
One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
- Marissa Meyer
Heartless
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We know about the wildlife for God’s sake!” screamed Aideen. “We’re being attacked by a feckin’ pack of chimpanzees right now! Get us out of here!
- Steven Decker
The Balance of Time
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
- Clifford D. Simak
Way Station
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
- Kristin Cast
Hunted
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
It's not how you die. It's who you die.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.
No one should have gone through what we went through, but we did. And it kills me to think of it.
But I didn't love you like you loved me. I don't hate you for that. It just makes me sorry, that there isn't someone else who could love you better.
I know when you think about how I went, you'll get it. I was always uneasy about being alive. The idea of being dead makes me feel clear. When I think of it. It makes me think peace, peace, peace. It makes me happy. I am looking forward to it, to the absence of everything. And so I want you to be happy for me, that this is better for me. That I found what I needed. I know you won't be. But it's the last thing I want. You happy.
- Alexander Chee
Edinburgh
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
- Andrew Murray
Jesus Himself
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.
- Cheryl Strayed
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
In the end, living is defined by dying.
- Bernard Beckett
Genesis
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
- C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested.

The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid.

And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.
- Daniel Abraham
The Price of Spring
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills
Topic: Death
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
- Heinrich Heine
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.
- Leila Aboulela
Minaret
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We theorize that if these disruptions continue to happen, eventually the separate realities will begin to compete with our primary reality for dominance, and there will end up being no safe reality to live in.
- Steven Decker
The Balance of Time
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
- Alberto Manguel
The Library at Night
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.
- Richard Siken
War of the Foxes
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.
- Max Lucado
Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.
- Tim O'Brien
The Things They Carried
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Rebirth always follows death.
- Neil Gaiman
Norse Mythology
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Ignorance is fatal.
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words
Topic: Death
One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
- Marissa Meyer
Heartless
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We know about the wildlife for God’s sake!” screamed Aideen. “We’re being attacked by a feckin’ pack of chimpanzees right now! Get us out of here!
- Steven Decker
The Balance of Time
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
- Clifford D. Simak
Way Station
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
- Kristin Cast
Hunted
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
It's not how you die. It's who you die.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
You ought to know, you were my best friend. You were. I know you loved me. I loved you.
No one should have gone through what we went through, but we did. And it kills me to think of it.
But I didn't love you like you loved me. I don't hate you for that. It just makes me sorry, that there isn't someone else who could love you better.
I know when you think about how I went, you'll get it. I was always uneasy about being alive. The idea of being dead makes me feel clear. When I think of it. It makes me think peace, peace, peace. It makes me happy. I am looking forward to it, to the absence of everything. And so I want you to be happy for me, that this is better for me. That I found what I needed. I know you won't be. But it's the last thing I want. You happy.
- Alexander Chee
Edinburgh
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
- Andrew Murray
Jesus Himself
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.
- Cheryl Strayed
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
In the end, living is defined by dying.
- Bernard Beckett
Genesis
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
- C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We say that flowers return every spring, but that is a lie. It is true that the world is renewed. It is also true that that renewal comes at a price, for even if the flower grows from an ancient vine, the flowers of spring are themselves new to the world, untried and untested.

The flower that wilted last year is gone. Petals once fallen are fallen forever. Flowers do not return in the spring, rather they are replaced. It is in this difference between returned and replaced that the price of renewal is paid.

And as it is for spring flowers, so it is for us.
- Daniel Abraham
The Price of Spring
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATING ▼
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;
Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes
Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth,
Let's choose executors and talk of wills
Topic: Death
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
- Heinrich Heine
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
All through life there were distinctions - toilets for men, toilets for women; clothes for men, clothes for women - then, at the end, the graves are identical.
- Leila Aboulela
Minaret
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We theorize that if these disruptions continue to happen, eventually the separate realities will begin to compete with our primary reality for dominance, and there will end up being no safe reality to live in.
- Steven Decker
The Balance of Time
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
- Alberto Manguel
The Library at Night
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
What is a ghost? Something dead that seems to be alive. Something dead that doesn't know it's dead.
- Richard Siken
War of the Foxes
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
...
109
110
111
112
113
 		...