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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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NOT YET RATED ▼
And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.
- Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.
- Maria V. Snyder
Storm Glass
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
- Gayle Forman
Just One Day
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
- Aberjhani
Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Topic: Death, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Topic: Death, Funny, Inspirational, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
- Veronica Roth
Allegiant
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.
- Robert Galbraith
The Cuckoo's Calling
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.
- Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.
- Ernest Cline
Ready Player One
Topic: Death, Funny
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death is part of who we are. It guides
us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.
- Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone sounded the same when they died.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
- Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
- Jim Carroll
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
- Thomas Bernhard
Gargoyles
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
No one escapes from life alive.
- Michael Crichton
Congo
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Two turtle doves will show thee
Where my cold ashes lie
And sadly murmuring tell thee
How in tears I did die
- Nikolai Gogol
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.
- Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.
- Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
- Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Not forever does the bulbul sing
In balmy shades of bowers,
Not forever lasts the spring
Nor ever blossom the flowers.
Not forever reigneth joy,
Sets the sun on days of bliss,
Friendships not forever last,
They know not life, who know not this.
- Khushwant Singh
Train to Pakistan
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
That's a nice song," said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.
"It's an old soldiers' song," he said.
"Really, sarge? But it's about angels."
Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits.
"As I recall, they used to sing it after battles," he said. "I've seen old men cry when they sing it," he added.
"Why? It sounds cheerful."
They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.
- Terry Pratchett
Night Watch
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.
- Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.
- Maria V. Snyder
Storm Glass
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
- Gayle Forman
Just One Day
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
- Aberjhani
Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Topic: Death, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Topic: Death, Funny, Inspirational, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
- Veronica Roth
Allegiant
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.
- Robert Galbraith
The Cuckoo's Calling
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.
- Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.
- Ernest Cline
Ready Player One
Topic: Death, Funny
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death is part of who we are. It guides
us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.
- Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone sounded the same when they died.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
- Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
- Jim Carroll
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
- Thomas Bernhard
Gargoyles
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
No one escapes from life alive.
- Michael Crichton
Congo
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Two turtle doves will show thee
Where my cold ashes lie
And sadly murmuring tell thee
How in tears I did die
- Nikolai Gogol
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.
- Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.
- Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
- Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Not forever does the bulbul sing
In balmy shades of bowers,
Not forever lasts the spring
Nor ever blossom the flowers.
Not forever reigneth joy,
Sets the sun on days of bliss,
Friendships not forever last,
They know not life, who know not this.
- Khushwant Singh
Train to Pakistan
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
That's a nice song," said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.
"It's an old soldiers' song," he said.
"Really, sarge? But it's about angels."
Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits.
"As I recall, they used to sing it after battles," he said. "I've seen old men cry when they sing it," he added.
"Why? It sounds cheerful."
They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.
- Terry Pratchett
Night Watch
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.
- Patrick Ness
A Monster Calls
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.
- Maria V. Snyder
Storm Glass
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
- Gayle Forman
Just One Day
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
- Aberjhani
Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Topic: Death, Philosophical
NOT YET RATED ▼
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Topic: Death, Funny, Inspirational, Motivational
NOT YET RATED ▼
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.
- Veronica Roth
Allegiant
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Kill me, or you are a murderer.
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them.
- Robert Galbraith
The Cuckoo's Calling
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do.
- Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.
- Ernest Cline
Ready Player One
Topic: Death, Funny
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death is part of who we are. It guides
us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.
- Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Everyone sounded the same when they died.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
- Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
- Jim Carroll
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.
- Thomas Bernhard
Gargoyles
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
No one escapes from life alive.
- Michael Crichton
Congo
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Two turtle doves will show thee
Where my cold ashes lie
And sadly murmuring tell thee
How in tears I did die
- Nikolai Gogol
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.
- Juan Rulfo
Pedro Páramo
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.
- Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.
- Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
Not forever does the bulbul sing
In balmy shades of bowers,
Not forever lasts the spring
Nor ever blossom the flowers.
Not forever reigneth joy,
Sets the sun on days of bliss,
Friendships not forever last,
They know not life, who know not this.
- Khushwant Singh
Train to Pakistan
Topic: Death, Life
NOT YET RATED ▼
That's a nice song," said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.
"It's an old soldiers' song," he said.
"Really, sarge? But it's about angels."
Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits.
"As I recall, they used to sing it after battles," he said. "I've seen old men cry when they sing it," he added.
"Why? It sounds cheerful."
They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will.
- Terry Pratchett
Night Watch
Topic: Death
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