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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 problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
- Spider Robinson
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
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I choose to believe that my father is still alive, that he has survived death, outlived us all, and possesses the soul that goes on and lives forever; We just cannot see him yet, for we have not caught up with him. our time will come just as his did. and no matter how woeful and lost I was when he passed away, I know I will be glad to go to a place where I can see him, and know he is okay and happy. It’s just not my time yet and there is no way of knowing if any of it is true." - Jane Adams
- Noorilhuda
The Governess
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Death is here and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
Above is death - and we are death.

Death has set his mark and seal
On all we are and all we feel,
On all we know and all we fear,

First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust - and we die too.

All things that we love and cherish,
Like ourselves must fade and perish;
Such is our rude mortal lot -
Love itself would, did they not.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poems
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Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as I know, there have been no empirical studies of how children react to such scenes and what harm if any is done to their psyche. My guess is that the normal child finds it all very amusing and is not damaged in the least, but that books like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.
- Martin Gardner
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
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And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.
- Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
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Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
- Laurence Gonzales
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
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No mother should lose her child.
- Ann Hood
The Knitting Circle
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Love is a wound," the assassin said. " Neither life nor death.
- Cassandra Rose Clarke
The Pirate's Wish
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Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.
- Nancy Werlin
Impossible
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Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.
- Lauren Oliver
Delirium
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I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
- Albert Hofmann
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Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
- Gail Caldwell
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
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Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.
- Michelle Zink
Prophecy of the Sisters
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Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for a grilled cheese. It was easier to die if you didn't have family members to worry about at that exact moment.

Easier for the one who was dying, maybe.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
There Is No Long Distance Now
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The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in times of despair.
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We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.
- Rachel Ward
Numbers
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I was made to rule the darkness.
- Rae Hachton
Evermore
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In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.
- Pablo Neruda
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
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Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be placed, they do not say, "This is not a palace" or "This is not a garden"; they just are. They are just beautiful, without giving regards to whether they are placed on a grave or in a castle. Flowers are just beautiful, whether they grow by the wayside or in a manicured garden. If we were all like flowers, then we would all be beautiful, with no regards to why or how. We just are. We are just beautiful.
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The death of a person is not some number. Everyone’s lives must have meaning. What’s written here is something you could never feel from the words ‘four dead.’ It’s their breath.
- Kafka Asagiri
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
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There are two events in everybody’s life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing. Yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born and nobody remembers dying. Is that why we always stare into the eye sockets of a skull? Because we’re asking, “What was it like?” “Does it hurt?” “Are you still scared?”.
- Steven Moffat
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Before that beautiful heart that harmed none and loved too much-stopped.
- Hafsah Faizal
We Hunt the Flame
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Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves
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That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.
- L.J. Smith
Night World, No. 3
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The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
- Spider Robinson
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
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I choose to believe that my father is still alive, that he has survived death, outlived us all, and possesses the soul that goes on and lives forever; We just cannot see him yet, for we have not caught up with him. our time will come just as his did. and no matter how woeful and lost I was when he passed away, I know I will be glad to go to a place where I can see him, and know he is okay and happy. It’s just not my time yet and there is no way of knowing if any of it is true." - Jane Adams
- Noorilhuda
The Governess
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Death is here and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
Above is death - and we are death.

Death has set his mark and seal
On all we are and all we feel,
On all we know and all we fear,

First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust - and we die too.

All things that we love and cherish,
Like ourselves must fade and perish;
Such is our rude mortal lot -
Love itself would, did they not.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as I know, there have been no empirical studies of how children react to such scenes and what harm if any is done to their psyche. My guess is that the normal child finds it all very amusing and is not damaged in the least, but that books like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.
- Martin Gardner
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.
- Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
- Laurence Gonzales
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No mother should lose her child.
- Ann Hood
The Knitting Circle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is a wound," the assassin said. " Neither life nor death.
- Cassandra Rose Clarke
The Pirate's Wish
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.
- Nancy Werlin
Impossible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.
- Lauren Oliver
Delirium
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
- Albert Hofmann
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
- Gail Caldwell
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.
- Michelle Zink
Prophecy of the Sisters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for a grilled cheese. It was easier to die if you didn't have family members to worry about at that exact moment.

Easier for the one who was dying, maybe.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
There Is No Long Distance Now
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in times of despair.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.
- Rachel Ward
Numbers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was made to rule the darkness.
- Rae Hachton
Evermore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.
- Pablo Neruda
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be placed, they do not say, "This is not a palace" or "This is not a garden"; they just are. They are just beautiful, without giving regards to whether they are placed on a grave or in a castle. Flowers are just beautiful, whether they grow by the wayside or in a manicured garden. If we were all like flowers, then we would all be beautiful, with no regards to why or how. We just are. We are just beautiful.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The death of a person is not some number. Everyone’s lives must have meaning. What’s written here is something you could never feel from the words ‘four dead.’ It’s their breath.
- Kafka Asagiri
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two events in everybody’s life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing. Yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born and nobody remembers dying. Is that why we always stare into the eye sockets of a skull? Because we’re asking, “What was it like?” “Does it hurt?” “Are you still scared?”.
- Steven Moffat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before that beautiful heart that harmed none and loved too much-stopped.
- Hafsah Faizal
We Hunt the Flame
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.
- L.J. Smith
Night World, No. 3
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
- Spider Robinson
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I choose to believe that my father is still alive, that he has survived death, outlived us all, and possesses the soul that goes on and lives forever; We just cannot see him yet, for we have not caught up with him. our time will come just as his did. and no matter how woeful and lost I was when he passed away, I know I will be glad to go to a place where I can see him, and know he is okay and happy. It’s just not my time yet and there is no way of knowing if any of it is true." - Jane Adams
- Noorilhuda
The Governess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is here and death is there,
Death is busy everywhere,
All around, within, beneath,
Above is death - and we are death.

Death has set his mark and seal
On all we are and all we feel,
On all we know and all we fear,

First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due,
Dust claims dust - and we die too.

All things that we love and cherish,
Like ourselves must fade and perish;
Such is our rude mortal lot -
Love itself would, did they not.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Complete Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as I know, there have been no empirical studies of how children react to such scenes and what harm if any is done to their psyche. My guess is that the normal child finds it all very amusing and is not damaged in the least, but that books like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz should not be allowed to circulate indiscriminately among adults who are undergoing analysis.
- Martin Gardner
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.
- Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is saying: perhaps not today. In that sense, survivors don't defeat death, they come to terms with it.
- Laurence Gonzales
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No mother should lose her child.
- Ann Hood
The Knitting Circle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is a wound," the assassin said. " Neither life nor death.
- Cassandra Rose Clarke
The Pirate's Wish
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.
- Nancy Werlin
Impossible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Two weeks until your cure" she says finally. "Sixteen days" I say, but in my head I'm counting: Seven days. Seven days until I'm free and away from all these people and their sliding superficial lives brushing past one another gliding, gliding, gliding from life to death. For them there's hardly a change between the two.
- Lauren Oliver
Delirium
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know LSD; I don't need to take it anymore. Maybe when I die, like Aldous Huxley.
- Albert Hofmann
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.
- Gail Caldwell
Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps because it seems so appropriate, I don't notice the rain. It falls in sheets, a blanket of silvery thread rushing to the hard almost-winter ground. Still, I stand without moving at the side of the coffin.
- Michelle Zink
Prophecy of the Sisters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for a grilled cheese. It was easier to die if you didn't have family members to worry about at that exact moment.

Easier for the one who was dying, maybe.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
There Is No Long Distance Now
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish form our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided. Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instill faith in times of despair.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.
- Rachel Ward
Numbers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was made to rule the darkness.
- Rae Hachton
Evermore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the end, everyone is aware of this:
nobody keeps any of what he has,
and life is only a borrowing of bones.
- Pablo Neruda
The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be placed, they do not say, "This is not a palace" or "This is not a garden"; they just are. They are just beautiful, without giving regards to whether they are placed on a grave or in a castle. Flowers are just beautiful, whether they grow by the wayside or in a manicured garden. If we were all like flowers, then we would all be beautiful, with no regards to why or how. We just are. We are just beautiful.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The death of a person is not some number. Everyone’s lives must have meaning. What’s written here is something you could never feel from the words ‘four dead.’ It’s their breath.
- Kafka Asagiri
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two events in everybody’s life that nobody remembers. Two moments experienced by every living thing. Yet no one remembers anything about them. Nobody remembers being born and nobody remembers dying. Is that why we always stare into the eye sockets of a skull? Because we’re asking, “What was it like?” “Does it hurt?” “Are you still scared?”.
- Steven Moffat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before that beautiful heart that harmed none and loved too much-stopped.
- Hafsah Faizal
We Hunt the Flame
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's how I want to go. Taking my own way out and totally pissing everybody off at the end.
- L.J. Smith
Night World, No. 3
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