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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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I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.
- Sarah Teasdale
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
- Saul Bellow
Herzog
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
- Emil Cioran
The Trouble With Being Born
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
- Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.
- William Shakespeare
The Tempest
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.
- Russell Brand
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Our knowledge of life is limited to death
- Enrich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
- Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nothing dies in Hell.
- John Patrick Kennedy
Plague of Angels
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
- Tamora Pierce
Briar's Book
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)
- Michael G. Kramer
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
- Idries Shah
Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving
- Mira Grant
Feed
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
- Francis of Assisi
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shocking admission by Eleanor Roosevelt to actress Veronica Lake that her husband was being treated for the disease.
- Steven Lomazow
FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Mr. Ludefance? This is Barnett Hooks. We’re a law firm over here in Tallahassee. I’ve been trying to reach you for over a week as I’m representing a client who is interested in hiring you.”
“I’m currently out of the country, Mr. Hooks. Why don’t you tell me about the nature of the problem? Mind you, I don’t take infidelity cases anymore.”
“No, it’s not that type of case. This is about the late Judge Russell Hastings. He was an appellate judge with the First District Court of Appeals here in Tallahassee who unfortunately was murdered about a year ago.
- Behcet Kaya
Appellate Judge
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.
- Sarah Teasdale
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
- Saul Bellow
Herzog
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
- Emil Cioran
The Trouble With Being Born
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
- Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.
- William Shakespeare
The Tempest
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.
- Russell Brand
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Our knowledge of life is limited to death
- Enrich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
- Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nothing dies in Hell.
- John Patrick Kennedy
Plague of Angels
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
- Tamora Pierce
Briar's Book
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)
- Michael G. Kramer
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
- Idries Shah
Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving
- Mira Grant
Feed
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
- Francis of Assisi
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shocking admission by Eleanor Roosevelt to actress Veronica Lake that her husband was being treated for the disease.
- Steven Lomazow
FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Mr. Ludefance? This is Barnett Hooks. We’re a law firm over here in Tallahassee. I’ve been trying to reach you for over a week as I’m representing a client who is interested in hiring you.”
“I’m currently out of the country, Mr. Hooks. Why don’t you tell me about the nature of the problem? Mind you, I don’t take infidelity cases anymore.”
“No, it’s not that type of case. This is about the late Judge Russell Hastings. He was an appellate judge with the First District Court of Appeals here in Tallahassee who unfortunately was murdered about a year ago.
- Behcet Kaya
Appellate Judge
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.
- Sarah Teasdale
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
- Saul Bellow
Herzog
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
- Emil Cioran
The Trouble With Being Born
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.
- Katherine Paterson
Bridge to Terabithia
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong
Hark! now I hear them,—Ding-dong, bell.
- William Shakespeare
The Tempest
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close.
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.
- Russell Brand
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Bushido is realized in the presence of death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. There is no other reasoning.
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Our knowledge of life is limited to death
- Enrich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.
- Robert Jordan
Lord of Chaos
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die.
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nothing dies in Hell.
- John Patrick Kennedy
Plague of Angels
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.
- Tamora Pierce
Briar's Book
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
People of various parts of France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Poland, the USSR, and other places, were living among the ruins in the best way that they could. Because I was alone and homeless as well as confused, I opted to join the French Foreign Legion. When I was in the Wehrmacht, I thought that their discipline was extreme. However, it was nothing when compared to the discipline as practised by the Foreign Legion!”

(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)
- Michael G. Kramer
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
- Idries Shah
Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Nothing is impossible to kill. It's just that sometimes after you kill something you have to keep shooting it until it stops moving
- Mira Grant
Feed
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.
- Francis of Assisi
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shocking admission by Eleanor Roosevelt to actress Veronica Lake that her husband was being treated for the disease.
- Steven Lomazow
FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Mr. Ludefance? This is Barnett Hooks. We’re a law firm over here in Tallahassee. I’ve been trying to reach you for over a week as I’m representing a client who is interested in hiring you.”
“I’m currently out of the country, Mr. Hooks. Why don’t you tell me about the nature of the problem? Mind you, I don’t take infidelity cases anymore.”
“No, it’s not that type of case. This is about the late Judge Russell Hastings. He was an appellate judge with the First District Court of Appeals here in Tallahassee who unfortunately was murdered about a year ago.
- Behcet Kaya
Appellate Judge
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.
Topic: Death
NOT YET RATED ▼
Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Topic: Death
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