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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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Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
- Philip Roth
American Pastoral
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I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.
- Neil Gaiman
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
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I want to commit suicide but am afraid someone will think I am crazy.
- Carl White
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Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me–by one of you!
- Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game
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The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.
- Carl Sagan
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
- Walt Whitman
Drum Taps
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Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.
- Zhuangzi
The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
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To philosophise is to learn how to die.
- Michael de Montaigne
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When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright dream.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Circling: 1978-1987
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However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.
- Rachel Ward
Numbers
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Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
- Walter Scott
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Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
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And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
- Mark Doty
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Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!
- Jackie French
Lady Dance
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- had a million things to do today; death would have to wait, -
(The Tin Star)
- J.L. Langley
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It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops.
- Henri Riviere
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How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us
- Elena Ferrante
The Days of Abandonment
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The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir
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I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
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When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
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When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)
- John Irving
The World According to Garp
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The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
- Katherine Hepburn - Stage Door (1937)
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Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
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If you don't fear death, then let Kieran meet it.
- Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
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Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
- Philip Roth
American Pastoral
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I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.
- Neil Gaiman
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
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I want to commit suicide but am afraid someone will think I am crazy.
- Carl White
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Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me–by one of you!
- Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game
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The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.
- Carl Sagan
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
- Walt Whitman
Drum Taps
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Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.
- Zhuangzi
The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
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To philosophise is to learn how to die.
- Michael de Montaigne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright dream.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Circling: 1978-1987
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.
- Rachel Ward
Numbers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
- Walter Scott
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Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
- Mark Doty
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!
- Jackie French
Lady Dance
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- had a million things to do today; death would have to wait, -
(The Tin Star)
- J.L. Langley
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It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops.
- Henri Riviere
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How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us
- Elena Ferrante
The Days of Abandonment
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The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)
- John Irving
The World According to Garp
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
- Katherine Hepburn - Stage Door (1937)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you don't fear death, then let Kieran meet it.
- Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
- Philip Roth
American Pastoral
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.
- Neil Gaiman
Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want to commit suicide but am afraid someone will think I am crazy.
- Carl White
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Today I have gathered together my nearest and dearest, my sixteen nieces and nephews (Sit down, Grace Windsor Wexler!) to view the body of your Uncle Sam for the last time. Tomorrow its ashes will be scattered to the four winds. I, Samuel W. Westing, hereby swear that I did not die of natural causes. My life was taken from me–by one of you!
- Ellen Raskin
The Westing Game
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.
- Carl Sagan
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would save you
- Walt Whitman
Drum Taps
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not use life to give life to death. Do not use death to bring death to life.
- Zhuangzi
The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To philosophise is to learn how to die.
- Michael de Montaigne
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright dream.
- Dejan Stojanovic
Circling: 1978-1987
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
However cozy things seemed, the facts of life were the same. You couldn't escape death: It would get us all in the end.
- Rachel Ward
Numbers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!
- Walter Scott
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.
- Mark Doty
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dance, my darling dance! If you dance then death can't catch you! Nothing bad can touch you! Dance!
- Jackie French
Lady Dance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
- had a million things to do today; death would have to wait, -
(The Tin Star)
- J.L. Langley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops.
- Henri Riviere
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How heavy a body that has been traversed by death is, life is light, there's no need to let anyone make it heavy for us
- Elena Ferrante
The Days of Abandonment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.
- Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Not Now, Voyager: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't think that science and the paranormal have to be at war; in fact, it's crucial that they work together. It seems naïve to believe that the world is exactly as it seems.
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When (The World According To) Garp was published, people who’d lost children wrote to me. ‘’I lost one, too,’’ they told me. I confessed to them that I hadn’t lost any children. I’m just a father with a good imagination. In my imagination, I lose my children every day. (afterword)
- John Irving
The World According to Garp
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.
- Katherine Hepburn - Stage Door (1937)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you don't fear death, then let Kieran meet it.
- Cassandra Clare
Lord of Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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