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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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The events unfolded with such speed and efficiency that Anderson found himself in a state of shock. His anger with Bevin and McPhearson was quickly replaced with a sense of impending doom. An unbelievable stream of events had taken place since his training exercises in the Pacific.
- Behcet Kaya
Murder on the Naval Base
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Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
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Nothing remains forever, only thing that remain forever is romantically stupid word forever.
- Santosh Kalwar
Quote Me Everyday
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And I looked out at the dog, and McCoy trying to cradle her in one arm and cut the rope with t’other, and I said, ‘What goes around, comes around, daddy.’
“And he just smiled. A wicked smile. And he nodded. And he kept on driving, turning left onto the road to the church.”  
- J.K. Franko
The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior
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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
- Joanne Harris
Runemarks
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I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!
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Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.
- Mark Mirabello
The Cannibal Within
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It's only water," she said.
"Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.
- Kristin Cashore
Graceling
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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more
- Alan Brennert
Moloka'i
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Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
- Osho
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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
- Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
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Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
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And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.
- Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
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Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
- A. Sachs
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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
- G.K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw
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Don’t be afraid, Queen, the blood has long run down into the earth. And on the spot where it was spilled, grapevines are growing today.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
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Due to Mom’s condition, she would attack “The Walls” from sun-up to sun-down and day after day due to her mentalparanoia. With the death of her sister, no barrier, partition, fence, or any standing surface would’ve been safe. That kind of trauma would’ve created an endless loop of rages such as: “Oh no! Oh no! Not my sister, you Devil Ass Dawg! Oh Jesus, those Dead Dawg have come and taken my sister away! Help me Jesus! Help me get those Dawg out of my house! Lawd, I can’t take these Dawg howling anymore! Lawd Jesus, bring her back! Lawd, bring her back!
- Harold Phifer
My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
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You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.
- Alexander Gordon Smith
Lockdown
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Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
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It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house.
It's really, really true.
A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream.
- Jenny Downham
Before I Die
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Cyrano: The leaves---
Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.
Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little way
From the branch to the earth, a little fear
Of mingling with the common dust---and yet
They go down gracefully---a fall that seems
Like flying!
- Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
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The events unfolded with such speed and efficiency that Anderson found himself in a state of shock. His anger with Bevin and McPhearson was quickly replaced with a sense of impending doom. An unbelievable stream of events had taken place since his training exercises in the Pacific.
- Behcet Kaya
Murder on the Naval Base
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Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing remains forever, only thing that remain forever is romantically stupid word forever.
- Santosh Kalwar
Quote Me Everyday
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And I looked out at the dog, and McCoy trying to cradle her in one arm and cut the rope with t’other, and I said, ‘What goes around, comes around, daddy.’
“And he just smiled. A wicked smile. And he nodded. And he kept on driving, turning left onto the road to the church.”  
- J.K. Franko
The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
- Joanne Harris
Runemarks
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I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.
- Mark Mirabello
The Cannibal Within
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It's only water," she said.
"Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.
- Kristin Cashore
Graceling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more
- Alan Brennert
Moloka'i
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Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
- Osho
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I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
- Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.
- Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
- A. Sachs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
- G.K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t be afraid, Queen, the blood has long run down into the earth. And on the spot where it was spilled, grapevines are growing today.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Due to Mom’s condition, she would attack “The Walls” from sun-up to sun-down and day after day due to her mentalparanoia. With the death of her sister, no barrier, partition, fence, or any standing surface would’ve been safe. That kind of trauma would’ve created an endless loop of rages such as: “Oh no! Oh no! Not my sister, you Devil Ass Dawg! Oh Jesus, those Dead Dawg have come and taken my sister away! Help me Jesus! Help me get those Dawg out of my house! Lawd, I can’t take these Dawg howling anymore! Lawd Jesus, bring her back! Lawd, bring her back!
- Harold Phifer
My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.
- Alexander Gordon Smith
Lockdown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house.
It's really, really true.
A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream.
- Jenny Downham
Before I Die
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Cyrano: The leaves---
Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.
Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little way
From the branch to the earth, a little fear
Of mingling with the common dust---and yet
They go down gracefully---a fall that seems
Like flying!
- Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The events unfolded with such speed and efficiency that Anderson found himself in a state of shock. His anger with Bevin and McPhearson was quickly replaced with a sense of impending doom. An unbelievable stream of events had taken place since his training exercises in the Pacific.
- Behcet Kaya
Murder on the Naval Base
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living.
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing remains forever, only thing that remain forever is romantically stupid word forever.
- Santosh Kalwar
Quote Me Everyday
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And I looked out at the dog, and McCoy trying to cradle her in one arm and cut the rope with t’other, and I said, ‘What goes around, comes around, daddy.’
“And he just smiled. A wicked smile. And he nodded. And he kept on driving, turning left onto the road to the church.”  
- J.K. Franko
The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
- Joanne Harris
Runemarks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness.
- Mark Mirabello
The Cannibal Within
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's only water," she said.
"Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said.
- Kristin Cashore
Graceling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more
- Alan Brennert
Moloka'i
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
- Osho
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I hope death will be a great happiness, a happiness as great as that of love, fulfilled love
- Hermann Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.
- Anton Chekhov
The Cherry Orchard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
- A. Sachs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
- G.K. Chesterton
George Bernard Shaw
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don’t be afraid, Queen, the blood has long run down into the earth. And on the spot where it was spilled, grapevines are growing today.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Due to Mom’s condition, she would attack “The Walls” from sun-up to sun-down and day after day due to her mentalparanoia. With the death of her sister, no barrier, partition, fence, or any standing surface would’ve been safe. That kind of trauma would’ve created an endless loop of rages such as: “Oh no! Oh no! Not my sister, you Devil Ass Dawg! Oh Jesus, those Dead Dawg have come and taken my sister away! Help me Jesus! Help me get those Dawg out of my house! Lawd, I can’t take these Dawg howling anymore! Lawd Jesus, bring her back! Lawd, bring her back!
- Harold Phifer
My Bully, My Aunt, & Her Final Gift
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.
- Alexander Gordon Smith
Lockdown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house.
It's really, really true.
A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream.
- Jenny Downham
Before I Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cyrano: The leaves---
Roxane: What color---Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.
Cyrano: Yes---they know how to die. A little way
From the branch to the earth, a little fear
Of mingling with the common dust---and yet
They go down gracefully---a fall that seems
Like flying!
- Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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