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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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It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
- George W. Bush
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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik H. Erikson
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Nothing is ever truly gone...
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow."
-Hem at Zelika's grave
- Alison Croggon
The Crow
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Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.
- Richard Yates
Cold Spring Harbor
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If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.
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Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories
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I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel honored to have known them and blessed that their passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on this beautiful earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love. I can think of no greater way to honor the deceased than to live this way.
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O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
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We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
- Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter
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In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
- George Clooney
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The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.
- Steven Moffat
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Death is not the end
Death can never be the end.

Death is the road.
Life is the traveller.
The Soul is the Guide

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Our mind thinks of death.
Our heart thinks of life
Our soul thinks of Immortality
- Sri Chinmoy
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Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.
- Ekaterina Sedia
The Alchemy of Stone
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When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?
- Kiran Desai
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He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
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A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane.
- Ellen Hopkins
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Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.
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The birth of a legend is the death of a hero. Every man wishes to die a hero. A hero’s death is glorious!
- Tanya Thompson
Red Russia
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God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.
Surely, while we live we are not lost.
Oh Janos, Janos my brother!
Surely we are not lost--while we live.
- John Hepworth
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He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was upon him. Arin had been born in the year of the god of death, and he was finally glad of it. He surrendered himself to his god, who smiled and came close. Stories will get you killed, he murmured in Arin’s ear. Now, you just listen. Listen to me.
- Marie Rutkoski
The Winner's Kiss
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Death has this much to be said for it:
You don't have to get out of bed for it.
Wherever you happen to be
They bring it to you—free.
- Kingsley Amis
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YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE
- Terry Pratchett
Night Watch
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It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
- George W. Bush
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik H. Erikson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is ever truly gone...
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow."
-Hem at Zelika's grave
- Alison Croggon
The Crow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.
- Richard Yates
Cold Spring Harbor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel honored to have known them and blessed that their passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on this beautiful earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love. I can think of no greater way to honor the deceased than to live this way.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
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We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
- Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
- George Clooney
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.
- Steven Moffat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is not the end
Death can never be the end.

Death is the road.
Life is the traveller.
The Soul is the Guide

...

Our mind thinks of death.
Our heart thinks of life
Our soul thinks of Immortality
- Sri Chinmoy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.
- Ekaterina Sedia
The Alchemy of Stone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?
- Kiran Desai
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane.
- Ellen Hopkins
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The birth of a legend is the death of a hero. Every man wishes to die a hero. A hero’s death is glorious!
- Tanya Thompson
Red Russia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.
Surely, while we live we are not lost.
Oh Janos, Janos my brother!
Surely we are not lost--while we live.
- John Hepworth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was upon him. Arin had been born in the year of the god of death, and he was finally glad of it. He surrendered himself to his god, who smiled and came close. Stories will get you killed, he murmured in Arin’s ear. Now, you just listen. Listen to me.
- Marie Rutkoski
The Winner's Kiss
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death has this much to be said for it:
You don't have to get out of bed for it.
Wherever you happen to be
They bring it to you—free.
- Kingsley Amis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE
- Terry Pratchett
Night Watch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's a time of sorrow and sadness when we lose a loss of life.
- George W. Bush
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik H. Erikson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing is ever truly gone...
Not for me, nor for any human being. We can only go forward, unless we are guests in some enchantment that is not is ours. We are condemned to an endless present, and we can never go back-the source of all our joy, and all our sorrow."
-Hem at Zelika's grave
- Alison Croggon
The Crow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.
- Richard Yates
Cold Spring Harbor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Emma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.
- Jorge Luis Borges
The Aleph and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am always saddened by the death of a good person. It is from this sadness that a feeling of gratitude emerges. I feel honored to have known them and blessed that their passing serves as a reminder to me that my time on this beautiful earth is limited and that I should seize the opportunity I have to forgive, share, explore, and love. I can think of no greater way to honor the deceased than to live this way.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.
- Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the time that we're here today, more women and children will die violently in the Darfur region than in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Israel or Lebanon. So, after September 30, you won't need the UN - you will simply need men with shovels and bleached white linen and headstones.
- George Clooney
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The day you lose someone isn't the worst -at least you've got something to do- it's all the days they stay dead.
- Steven Moffat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is not the end
Death can never be the end.

Death is the road.
Life is the traveller.
The Soul is the Guide

...

Our mind thinks of death.
Our heart thinks of life
Our soul thinks of Immortality
- Sri Chinmoy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.
- Ekaterina Sedia
The Alchemy of Stone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." My indiscretion embarrassed me, but I could not help it. Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?
- Kiran Desai
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.
- Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A breeze blows up, touching my cheek like a little child's kiss. It flutters a piece of paper. "Trash, out there? Must belong to one of us." We move closer, and when I reached for it, I find...... a perfect paper airplane.
- Ellen Hopkins
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The birth of a legend is the death of a hero. Every man wishes to die a hero. A hero’s death is glorious!
- Tanya Thompson
Red Russia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.
Surely, while we live we are not lost.
Oh Janos, Janos my brother!
Surely we are not lost--while we live.
- John Hepworth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He told himself a story. Not at first. At first, there wasn’t time for thoughts that came in the shape of words. His head was blessedly empty of stories then. War was coming. It was upon him. Arin had been born in the year of the god of death, and he was finally glad of it. He surrendered himself to his god, who smiled and came close. Stories will get you killed, he murmured in Arin’s ear. Now, you just listen. Listen to me.
- Marie Rutkoski
The Winner's Kiss
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death has this much to be said for it:
You don't have to get out of bed for it.
Wherever you happen to be
They bring it to you—free.
- Kingsley Amis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF CAKE
- Terry Pratchett
Night Watch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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