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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
- The Nightvale Podcast
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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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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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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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We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
- Liam Callanan
The Cloud Atlas
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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
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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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She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
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Popularity is teenage heroin.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
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Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.
- Soe Hok Gie
Catatan Seorang Demonstran
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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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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
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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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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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I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
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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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All that is not God is death.
- George MacDonald
Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
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Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
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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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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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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
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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
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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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
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Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
- The Nightvale Podcast
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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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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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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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
- Liam Callanan
The Cloud Atlas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Popularity is teenage heroin.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.
- Soe Hok Gie
Catatan Seorang Demonstran
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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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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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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)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that is not God is death.
- George MacDonald
Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
- The Nightvale Podcast
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
- Liam Callanan
The Cloud Atlas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.
- Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Popularity is teenage heroin.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.
- Soe Hok Gie
Catatan Seorang Demonstran
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that is not God is death.
- George MacDonald
Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Italian Proverb
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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