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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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My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon
- Hiro Arikawa
Nana Du Ký
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The only certainty life contains is death.
- Patricia Briggs
When Demons Walk
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Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
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I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.
- David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
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Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
- Guy de Maupassant
Bel-Ami
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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
- Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
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You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince: Library Edition
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We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.
- John Banville
The Sea
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Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.

- Dark Jar Tin Zoo
Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
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Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
- Holly Black
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
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We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
- Mary Roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.
- Tite Kubo
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We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.
- Lurlene McDaniel
Too Young to Die
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I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
- Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
- La Rochefoucauld
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Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.
- Michael Wyndham Thomas
The Erkeley Shadows
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Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.
- Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
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A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.
- Andrew Sean Greer
The Story of a Marriage
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Music, When Soft Voices Die

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poems
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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That is a death I will think of often and with great fondness.
- Gabriel F.W. Koch
Steel Blood
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But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
- Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon
- Hiro Arikawa
Nana Du Ký
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only certainty life contains is death.
- Patricia Briggs
When Demons Walk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.
- David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
- Guy de Maupassant
Bel-Ami
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
- Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince: Library Edition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.
- John Banville
The Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.

- Dark Jar Tin Zoo
Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
- Holly Black
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
- Mary Roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.
- Tite Kubo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.
- Lurlene McDaniel
Too Young to Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
- Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
- La Rochefoucauld
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.
- Michael Wyndham Thomas
The Erkeley Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.
- Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.
- Andrew Sean Greer
The Story of a Marriage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Music, When Soft Voices Die

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That is a death I will think of often and with great fondness.
- Gabriel F.W. Koch
Steel Blood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
- Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon
- Hiro Arikawa
Nana Du Ký
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only certainty life contains is death.
- Patricia Briggs
When Demons Walk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.
- David Foster Wallace
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
- Guy de Maupassant
Bel-Ami
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
- Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Prince: Library Edition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.
- John Banville
The Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.

- Dark Jar Tin Zoo
Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.
- Holly Black
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.
- Mary Roach
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have always been afraid... Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am ... scared to death just treading on your shadow.
- Tite Kubo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.
- Lurlene McDaniel
Too Young to Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.
- Louisa May Alcott
Little Women
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
- La Rochefoucauld
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mad Eye' Moody on the Avada Kedavra curse: "Not nice," he said calmly. "Not pleasant. And there's no counter curse. There's no blocking it. Only one known person has ever survived it, and he's sitting right in front of me.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing looked disturbed…yet everything felt that way. The guy was on the bed, calmness itself, as though he’d decided on a moment’s lie-down and just zizzed off.
- Michael Wyndham Thomas
The Erkeley Shadows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aren't you afraid of dying?
Not really. I've watched lots of good-for-nothing, worthless people die, and if people like that can do it, then I should be able to handle it.
- Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.
- Andrew Sean Greer
The Story of a Marriage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Music, When Soft Voices Die

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and -what will perhaps make you wonder more - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That is a death I will think of often and with great fondness.
- Gabriel F.W. Koch
Steel Blood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.
- Sun Tzu
The Art of War
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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