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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 is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
- The Nightvale Podcast
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Topic: Death
If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."

Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.
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Topic: Death
How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die
- Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth
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Topic: Death, Hope
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
- Walter Scott
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
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Topic: Death
We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
- Liam Callanan
The Cloud Atlas
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Topic: Death
XXX
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No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"

And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Topic: Death
That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.
- Dave Matthes
Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
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Topic: Death
She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
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Topic: Death
Popularity is teenage heroin.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
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Topic: Death
Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.
- Soe Hok Gie
Catatan Seorang Demonstran
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Topic: Death
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.
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Topic: Death
XXX
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Topic: Death
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel's Game
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Topic: Death
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.
- Mark Twain (Letters From the Earth)
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Topic: Death
I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.
- Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance
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Topic: Death
All that is not God is death.
- George MacDonald
Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
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Topic: Death
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
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Topic: Death
No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wings. - Garraty's thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk
- Richard Bachman
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Topic: Death
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.
- Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days
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Topic: Death
That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead.
- José Saramago
Blindness
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Topic: Death
The local dealers were cutting their coke with crystal meth
- Edward Williams
Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
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Topic: Death
Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time… what an absolute horror-inducing word
- Rachel Van Dyken
Ruin
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Topic: Death
We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.
- Donna Lynn Hope
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
- The Nightvale Podcast
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."

Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die
- Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death, Hope
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
- Walter Scott
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
- Liam Callanan
The Cloud Atlas
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"

And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Topic: Death
That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.
- Dave Matthes
Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Popularity is teenage heroin.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.
- Soe Hok Gie
Catatan Seorang Demonstran
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Topic: Death
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel's Game
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.
- Mark Twain (Letters From the Earth)
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.
- Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
All that is not God is death.
- George MacDonald
Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wings. - Garraty's thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk
- Richard Bachman
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.
- Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead.
- José Saramago
Blindness
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The local dealers were cutting their coke with crystal meth
- Edward Williams
Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time… what an absolute horror-inducing word
- Rachel Van Dyken
Ruin
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.
- Donna Lynn Hope
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
- The Nightvale Podcast
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories."

Fire corrected him, in a whisper. "The good memories.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die
- Vera Brittain
Testament of Youth
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death, Hope
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
- Walter Scott
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
- Liam Callanan
The Cloud Atlas
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"

And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Topic: Death
That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with.
- Dave Matthes
Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Popularity is teenage heroin.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.
- Soe Hok Gie
Catatan Seorang Demonstran
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Topic: Death
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Angel's Game
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.
- Mark Twain (Letters From the Earth)
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.
- Rohinton Mistry
A Fine Balance
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
All that is not God is death.
- George MacDonald
Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wings. - Garraty's thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk
- Richard Bachman
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.
- Shannon Hale
Book of a Thousand Days
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
That we're going to die is something we know from the moment we are born, That's why, in some ways, it's as if we were born dead.
- José Saramago
Blindness
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The local dealers were cutting their coke with crystal meth
- Edward Williams
Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Time was the most precious thing in the world to me, and I’d just given her all of it. Because I was falling for her. Because I cared for her. Because I wanted to give her something to remember me by, even if it would eventually fade like its namesake. Time… what an absolute horror-inducing word
- Rachel Van Dyken
Ruin
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.
- Donna Lynn Hope
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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