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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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There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring [making music] to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls,
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
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The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
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If you heard your lover scream in the next room
and you ran in and saw his pinkie on the floor, in a small puddle of blood.

You wouldn't rush to the pinkie and say,
'Darling, are you OK? '

No, you'd wrap your arms around his shoulders
and worry about the pinkie later.

The same holds true if you heard the scream,
ran in and saw his hand or -god forbid- his whole arm.

But suppose you hear your lover scream in the next room,
and you run in and his head is on the floor next to his body.

Which do you rush to and comfort first?
- Jeffrey McDaniel
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Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?
- David Kenyon Webster
Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
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To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.
- Stephen King
’Salem’s Lot
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Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?
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Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.
- Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance
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Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the creation of human folly. Both end in frustration. Am I destined to lead a life of endless frustration?
-(The Beginning and the End)
- Naguib Mahfouz
بداية ونهاية
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Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.
- Toba Beta
Master of Stupidity
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The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.
- Sarah Monette
The Mirador
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One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.
- Edward Abbey
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
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As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
- Roland Barthes
Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
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The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.
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Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
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As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, "Even here? Even here?
- Rick Strassman
Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies
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The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” he
whispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever....
- Stevie Smith
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What especially moved him was the corpse of a child of twelve or thirteen. He felt something like envy as he looked at it, recalling such expression as “Those whom the gods love die young.” Both his sister and his half-brother had lost their houses to fire. His sister’s husband, though, was on a suspended sentence for perjury.

Too bad we didn’t all die.
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
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Sooner or later it'd get to you. Death was fascinated by humans, and study was never a one-way thing. A man might spend his life peering at the private life of elementary particles and then find he either knew who he was or where he was, but not both.
- Terry Pratchett
Hogfather
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She would die, and maybe everyone would forget that she had ever lived.
- Amy Zhang
Falling into Place
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His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look - until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.
- Anthony Liccione
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Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
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I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring [making music] to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls,
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you heard your lover scream in the next room
and you ran in and saw his pinkie on the floor, in a small puddle of blood.

You wouldn't rush to the pinkie and say,
'Darling, are you OK? '

No, you'd wrap your arms around his shoulders
and worry about the pinkie later.

The same holds true if you heard the scream,
ran in and saw his hand or -god forbid- his whole arm.

But suppose you hear your lover scream in the next room,
and you run in and his head is on the floor next to his body.

Which do you rush to and comfort first?
- Jeffrey McDaniel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?
- David Kenyon Webster
Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.
- Stephen King
’Salem’s Lot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.
- Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the creation of human folly. Both end in frustration. Am I destined to lead a life of endless frustration?
-(The Beginning and the End)
- Naguib Mahfouz
بداية ونهاية
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.
- Toba Beta
Master of Stupidity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.
- Sarah Monette
The Mirador
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.
- Edward Abbey
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
- Roland Barthes
Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, "Even here? Even here?
- Rick Strassman
Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” he
whispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever....
- Stevie Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What especially moved him was the corpse of a child of twelve or thirteen. He felt something like envy as he looked at it, recalling such expression as “Those whom the gods love die young.” Both his sister and his half-brother had lost their houses to fire. His sister’s husband, though, was on a suspended sentence for perjury.

Too bad we didn’t all die.
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sooner or later it'd get to you. Death was fascinated by humans, and study was never a one-way thing. A man might spend his life peering at the private life of elementary particles and then find he either knew who he was or where he was, but not both.
- Terry Pratchett
Hogfather
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She would die, and maybe everyone would forget that she had ever lived.
- Amy Zhang
Falling into Place
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look - until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.
- Anthony Liccione
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring [making music] to the young-eyed cherubins;
Such harmony is in immortal souls,
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you heard your lover scream in the next room
and you ran in and saw his pinkie on the floor, in a small puddle of blood.

You wouldn't rush to the pinkie and say,
'Darling, are you OK? '

No, you'd wrap your arms around his shoulders
and worry about the pinkie later.

The same holds true if you heard the scream,
ran in and saw his hand or -god forbid- his whole arm.

But suppose you hear your lover scream in the next room,
and you run in and his head is on the floor next to his body.

Which do you rush to and comfort first?
- Jeffrey McDaniel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?
- David Kenyon Webster
Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.
- Stephen King
’Salem’s Lot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Please, please, help me grow to be like them, the ones'll soon be here, who never grow old, can't die, that's what they say, can't die, no matter what, or maybe they died a long time ago but Cecy calls, and Mother and Father call, and Grandmere who only whispers, and now they're coming and I'm nothing, not like them who pass through walls and live in trees or live underneath until seventeen-year rains flood them up and out, and the ones who run in packs, let me be the one! If they live forever, why not me?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.
- Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is more merciful than hope itself! There is nothing surprising in this, for death is divinely appointed, while hope is the creation of human folly. Both end in frustration. Am I destined to lead a life of endless frustration?
-(The Beginning and the End)
- Naguib Mahfouz
بداية ونهاية
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.
- Toba Beta
Master of Stupidity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead person is not truly dead until the last person who rememebers them dies.
- Sarah Monette
The Mirador
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One mile farther and I come to a second grave beside the road, nameless like the other, marked only with the dull blue-black stones of the badlands. I do not pause this time. The more often you stop the more difficult it is to continue. Stop too long and they cover you with rocks.
- Edward Abbey
Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.
- Roland Barthes
Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The desire of death will not always lead you to death but the fear of death will.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, "Even here? Even here?
- Rick Strassman
Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics & Other Spiritual Technologies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine’s mouth. “Death,” he
whispered to her, “should be a quiet thing.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever....
- Stevie Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What especially moved him was the corpse of a child of twelve or thirteen. He felt something like envy as he looked at it, recalling such expression as “Those whom the gods love die young.” Both his sister and his half-brother had lost their houses to fire. His sister’s husband, though, was on a suspended sentence for perjury.

Too bad we didn’t all die.
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sooner or later it'd get to you. Death was fascinated by humans, and study was never a one-way thing. A man might spend his life peering at the private life of elementary particles and then find he either knew who he was or where he was, but not both.
- Terry Pratchett
Hogfather
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She would die, and maybe everyone would forget that she had ever lived.
- Amy Zhang
Falling into Place
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look - until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.
- Anthony Liccione
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm on the last great journey here--and people want me to tell them what to pack.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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