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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 see a bright
portion
under the overhead light

that shades into
darkness
and then into darker
darkness
and I can't see beyond that.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone
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When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.
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Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
- Simon Van Booy
Everything Beautiful Began After
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I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.
- Snooki
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I know the truth, and I will tell you now: He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he is. A great man, he was. A great man he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. And I knew, as Denny sped me toward the doctor who would fix me, that if I had already accomplished what I set out to accomplish here on earth, if I had already learned what I was meant to learn, I would have left the curb one second later than I had, and I would have been killed instantly by that car. But I was not killed. Because I was not finished. I still had work to do.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
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I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.
- Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
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What I must do is die now. I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of life. I have lived a good life - longer than many, better than most. Tony died when he was twenty. I have had thirty-two years. I couldn't ask for another day. What did I do to deserve birth? It was a gift. I am me - that is a miracle. I had no right to a single hour. And yet I have had thirty-two years. Few can choose when they will die. I choose to accept death now. As of this moment I give up my "right" to live.
- Hugh Prather
Notes to Myself
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When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
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As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
- Elizabeth I
Collected Works
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This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.
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Death is not the end.
- Patrick Ness
Release
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It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
- Jules Renard
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Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
- Tom Rachman
The Imperfectionists
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We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.
- Andrew Shaffer
Hope Never Dies
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Shine in any season of your life!
Head on with confidence in your life’s pilgrim!
In deep faith, countless hope and unconditional love blessed by the Almighty.
Newness of each rising day, bringing forth colourful sunsets.
Enkindle your soul once more with courage, joy and love,
flowing in a river of awakening & sharing:
with a heart who once knew that hurt, pain, loss…
means to SHINE!
- Angelica Hopes
Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
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Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.
- Audrey Niffenegger
Her Fearful Symmetry
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And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe for tomb,
Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)
- George Sterling
The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
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Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
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We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.
- Wendy Corsi Staub
Awakening
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Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day.
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Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
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I see a bright
portion
under the overhead light

that shades into
darkness
and then into darker
darkness
and I can't see beyond that.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
- Simon Van Booy
Everything Beautiful Began After
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.
- Snooki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know the truth, and I will tell you now: He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he is. A great man, he was. A great man he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. And I knew, as Denny sped me toward the doctor who would fix me, that if I had already accomplished what I set out to accomplish here on earth, if I had already learned what I was meant to learn, I would have left the curb one second later than I had, and I would have been killed instantly by that car. But I was not killed. Because I was not finished. I still had work to do.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.
- Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What I must do is die now. I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of life. I have lived a good life - longer than many, better than most. Tony died when he was twenty. I have had thirty-two years. I couldn't ask for another day. What did I do to deserve birth? It was a gift. I am me - that is a miracle. I had no right to a single hour. And yet I have had thirty-two years. Few can choose when they will die. I choose to accept death now. As of this moment I give up my "right" to live.
- Hugh Prather
Notes to Myself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
- Elizabeth I
Collected Works
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is not the end.
- Patrick Ness
Release
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
- Jules Renard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
- Tom Rachman
The Imperfectionists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.
- Andrew Shaffer
Hope Never Dies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Shine in any season of your life!
Head on with confidence in your life’s pilgrim!
In deep faith, countless hope and unconditional love blessed by the Almighty.
Newness of each rising day, bringing forth colourful sunsets.
Enkindle your soul once more with courage, joy and love,
flowing in a river of awakening & sharing:
with a heart who once knew that hurt, pain, loss…
means to SHINE!
- Angelica Hopes
Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.
- Audrey Niffenegger
Her Fearful Symmetry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe for tomb,
Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)
- George Sterling
The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.
- Wendy Corsi Staub
Awakening
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I see a bright
portion
under the overhead light

that shades into
darkness
and then into darker
darkness
and I can't see beyond that.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too.
- John Green
Turtles All the Way Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.
- Simon Van Booy
Everything Beautiful Began After
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't eat friggin' lobster or anything like that. Because they're alive when you kill it.
- Snooki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know the truth, and I will tell you now: He was admired, loved, cheered, honored, respected. In life as well as in death. A great man, he is. A great man, he was. A great man he will be. He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. And I knew, as Denny sped me toward the doctor who would fix me, that if I had already accomplished what I set out to accomplish here on earth, if I had already learned what I was meant to learn, I would have left the curb one second later than I had, and I would have been killed instantly by that car. But I was not killed. Because I was not finished. I still had work to do.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War.
- Kurt Vonnegut
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What I must do is die now. I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of life. I have lived a good life - longer than many, better than most. Tony died when he was twenty. I have had thirty-two years. I couldn't ask for another day. What did I do to deserve birth? It was a gift. I am me - that is a miracle. I had no right to a single hour. And yet I have had thirty-two years. Few can choose when they will die. I choose to accept death now. As of this moment I give up my "right" to live.
- Hugh Prather
Notes to Myself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
- David Foster Wallace
Consider the Lobster and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have as good a courage answerable to my place as ever my father had. I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am indeed endowed with such qualities that if I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
- Elizabeth I
Collected Works
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is not the end.
- Patrick Ness
Release
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
- Jules Renard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.
- Tom Rachman
The Imperfectionists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We do have funerals for the living," Jill said. "They're called birthday parties.
- Andrew Shaffer
Hope Never Dies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Shine in any season of your life!
Head on with confidence in your life’s pilgrim!
In deep faith, countless hope and unconditional love blessed by the Almighty.
Newness of each rising day, bringing forth colourful sunsets.
Enkindle your soul once more with courage, joy and love,
flowing in a river of awakening & sharing:
with a heart who once knew that hurt, pain, loss…
means to SHINE!
- Angelica Hopes
Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Even her name seemed empty, as though it had detached itself from her and was floating untethered in his mind. How am I supposed to live without you? It was not a matter of the body; his body would carry on as usual. The problem was located in the word how: he would live, but without Elspeth the flavour, the manner, the method of living were lost to him. He would have to relearn solitude.
- Audrey Niffenegger
Her Fearful Symmetry
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe for tomb,
Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.
(“The Testimony of the Suns”)
- George Sterling
The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.
- Wendy Corsi Staub
Awakening
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.
- Mary Ann Shaffer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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