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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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Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?
- Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
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Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.
- Robert Fanney
The War of Mists
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...paradise is a world where everything
is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun...
- Danez Smith
Don't Call Us Dead
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My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon's Lexicon
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Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smile will never wrinkle, nor will that shine in your eyes fade..
- Kendal Rob
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Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.
- Teri Terry
Slated
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John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.
- Richard Castle
Heat Rises
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Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?
- Raymond Radiguet
The Devil in the Flesh
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He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
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Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
- Alexander the Great
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Justice will prevail!
- Tsugumi Ohba
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No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling.
- Pat Cunningham Devoto
Out of the Night That Covers Me
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We think of mortality so little these days...
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be...
- Tana French
In the Woods
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It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.
- Kristina McMorris
Letters from Home
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Here lies a gentleman bold
Who was so very brave
He went to lengths untold,
And on the brink of the grave
Death had on him no hold.
By the world he set small store--
He frightened it to the core--
Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
Though he'd lived a crazy man,
When he died he was sane once more.
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled.

Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I'd ever heard of.
- Richard S. Prather
Take a Murder, Darling
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When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular,and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

from "When the death comes
- Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Volume One
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Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
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I slept in your ashes last night.
It was like you laid your shadow down before you left. It smelled like hearth smoke and winter air. I made a blanket of the empty space. I pressed my cheek against the place where yours had been.
- Victoria Schwab
Gallant
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The thing about butterflies, Mr. Crow, is that they need to be admired from afar.
- A. Zavarelli
Crow
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Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.
- Nancy McKenzie
Queen of Camelot
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Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.
- Albert Camus
The Plague
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Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
- Simón Bolívar
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But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.
- James Clemens
Hinterland
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Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?
- Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
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Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.
- Robert Fanney
The War of Mists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...paradise is a world where everything
is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun...
- Danez Smith
Don't Call Us Dead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon's Lexicon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smile will never wrinkle, nor will that shine in your eyes fade..
- Kendal Rob
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.
- Teri Terry
Slated
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John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.
- Richard Castle
Heat Rises
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Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?
- Raymond Radiguet
The Devil in the Flesh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
- Alexander the Great
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Justice will prevail!
- Tsugumi Ohba
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling.
- Pat Cunningham Devoto
Out of the Night That Covers Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We think of mortality so little these days...
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be...
- Tana French
In the Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.
- Kristina McMorris
Letters from Home
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here lies a gentleman bold
Who was so very brave
He went to lengths untold,
And on the brink of the grave
Death had on him no hold.
By the world he set small store--
He frightened it to the core--
Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
Though he'd lived a crazy man,
When he died he was sane once more.
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled.

Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I'd ever heard of.
- Richard S. Prather
Take a Murder, Darling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular,and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

from "When the death comes
- Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I slept in your ashes last night.
It was like you laid your shadow down before you left. It smelled like hearth smoke and winter air. I made a blanket of the empty space. I pressed my cheek against the place where yours had been.
- Victoria Schwab
Gallant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The thing about butterflies, Mr. Crow, is that they need to be admired from afar.
- A. Zavarelli
Crow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.
- Nancy McKenzie
Queen of Camelot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.
- Albert Camus
The Plague
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
- Simón Bolívar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.
- James Clemens
Hinterland
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you didn't die?
- Robert Jordan
The Dragon Reborn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt.
- Robert Fanney
The War of Mists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...paradise is a world where everything
is a sanctuary & nothing is a gun...
- Danez Smith
Don't Call Us Dead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
The Demon's Lexicon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time moves on for us, for you it stands still. You will be forever ageless as we grow old, your smile will never wrinkle, nor will that shine in your eyes fade..
- Kendal Rob
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.
- Teri Terry
Slated
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.
- Richard Castle
Heat Rises
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Facing death calmly is praiseworthy only if one faces it alone. Death together is no longer death, even for unbelievers. The source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. When love is our whole life, what difference is there between living together and dying together ?
- Raymond Radiguet
The Devil in the Flesh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse...
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Invincible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.
- Alexander the Great
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Justice will prevail!
- Tsugumi Ohba
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling.
- Pat Cunningham Devoto
Out of the Night That Covers Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We think of mortality so little these days...
I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.
Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,
As you are now so once was I:
As I am so will you be...
- Tana French
In the Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.
- Kristina McMorris
Letters from Home
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here lies a gentleman bold
Who was so very brave
He went to lengths untold,
And on the brink of the grave
Death had on him no hold.
By the world he set small store--
He frightened it to the core--
Yet somehow, by Fate's plan,
Though he'd lived a crazy man,
When he died he was sane once more.
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was dead, all right. He had been shot, poisoned, stabbed, and strangled.

Either somebody had really had it in for him or four people had killed him. Or else it was the cleverest suicide I'd ever heard of.
- Richard S. Prather
Take a Murder, Darling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When it over, I want to say:all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular,and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

from "When the death comes
- Mary Oliver
New and Selected Poems, Volume One
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I slept in your ashes last night.
It was like you laid your shadow down before you left. It smelled like hearth smoke and winter air. I made a blanket of the empty space. I pressed my cheek against the place where yours had been.
- Victoria Schwab
Gallant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The thing about butterflies, Mr. Crow, is that they need to be admired from afar.
- A. Zavarelli
Crow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take what comes and live life without complaint. What will be, will be. Life is a woman's gift; death is God's.
- Nancy McKenzie
Queen of Camelot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.
- Albert Camus
The Plague
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Damn it! How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?
- Simón Bolívar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But often life asks much of you, and you either honor life by answering with all your heart, or you cower your way into your grave.
- James Clemens
Hinterland
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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