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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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This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
- John Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra
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The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

[Essay entitled 'On Christianity', published posthumously]
- W.E.B. Du Bois
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
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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
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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
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Rebirth always follows death.
- Neil Gaiman
Norse Mythology
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Ignorance is fatal.
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
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I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words
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One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
- Marissa Meyer
Heartless
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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
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Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
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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
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Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
- Kristin Cast
Hunted
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It's not how you die. It's who you die.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
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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
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Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
- Andrew Murray
Jesus Himself
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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
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In the end, living is defined by dying.
- Bernard Beckett
Genesis
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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
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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
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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
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Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
- Heinrich Heine
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This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
- John Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

[Essay entitled 'On Christianity', published posthumously]
- W.E.B. Du Bois
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
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Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rebirth always follows death.
- Neil Gaiman
Norse Mythology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ignorance is fatal.
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
- Marissa Meyer
Heartless
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
- Kristin Cast
Hunted
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not how you die. It's who you die.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
- Andrew Murray
Jesus Himself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the end, living is defined by dying.
- Bernard Beckett
Genesis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
- Heinrich Heine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!
- John Muir
My First Summer in the Sierra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

[Essay entitled 'On Christianity', published posthumously]
- W.E.B. Du Bois
Writings: The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade / The Souls of Black Folk / Dusk of Dawn / Essays and Articles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The Razor’s Edge
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rebirth always follows death.
- Neil Gaiman
Norse Mythology
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ignorance is fatal.
- Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One to be a murderer, the other to be martyred, One to be a monarch, the other to go mad.
- Marissa Meyer
Heartless
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.
- Kristin Cast
Hunted
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not how you die. It's who you die.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.
- Andrew Murray
Jesus Himself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the end, living is defined by dying.
- Bernard Beckett
Genesis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
- Heinrich Heine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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