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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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You must not resist life when it becomes inconvenient to live. You cannot outrun fear. You should not ignore pain. You will not outlive death.
- Tahereh Mafi
All This Twisted Glory
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There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision.
- Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man
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I shall plunge down into the abysmal horror of madness and death—or I shall walk upon the dawn.
- Mariana Enríquez
A Sunny Place for Shady People
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Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.
- Maurice Druon
The Iron King
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Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
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Morrie,” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”
“You bet,” Morrie whispered.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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If I'm to die a mortal, why shouldn't the same fate be given to all, no matter how long they've lived or how important they think they are? All things must eventually come to an end.
- Morgan Rhodes
Falling Kingdoms
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The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.
- Emily M. Danforth
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that breathless silence is
the music of the dark
and it’s part of the rhythm
to vanish like a spark.
- Wisława Szymborska
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When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
- Jim Butcher
Turn Coat
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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
- Madame De Stael
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I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.
- Christopher Buecheler
The Blood That Bonds
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I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.
- Tim Kreider
We Learn Nothing
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It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
- Lauren DeStefanos
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Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labour, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
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Now every mortal has pain
and sweat is constant,
but if there is anything dearer than being alive,
it's dark to me.
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing
(whatever it is) that glitters on the earth--
we call it life. We know no other.
The underworld's a blank
and all the rest just fantasy.
- Anne Carson
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
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We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.
- David Gemmell
Shield of Thunder
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...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.
- Philippe Claudel
Brodeck
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The reaper does not listen to the harvest.
- Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
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Just know I am
Not there to catch you
But I am there for you
- Caleb Warta/Ritter
My Sanity: The Ramblings of a Mad Man
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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
- Sri Chinmoy
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seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death
- Brandon Scott Gorrell
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My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave.
- Stonewall Jackson
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Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.
- Herman Wouk
Don't Stop the Carnival
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You must not resist life when it becomes inconvenient to live. You cannot outrun fear. You should not ignore pain. You will not outlive death.
- Tahereh Mafi
All This Twisted Glory
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There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision.
- Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man
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I shall plunge down into the abysmal horror of madness and death—or I shall walk upon the dawn.
- Mariana Enríquez
A Sunny Place for Shady People
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Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.
- Maurice Druon
The Iron King
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Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Morrie,” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”
“You bet,” Morrie whispered.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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If I'm to die a mortal, why shouldn't the same fate be given to all, no matter how long they've lived or how important they think they are? All things must eventually come to an end.
- Morgan Rhodes
Falling Kingdoms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.
- Emily M. Danforth
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
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When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that breathless silence is
the music of the dark
and it’s part of the rhythm
to vanish like a spark.
- Wisława Szymborska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
- Jim Butcher
Turn Coat
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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
- Madame De Stael
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I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.
- Christopher Buecheler
The Blood That Bonds
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.
- Tim Kreider
We Learn Nothing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
- Lauren DeStefanos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labour, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now every mortal has pain
and sweat is constant,
but if there is anything dearer than being alive,
it's dark to me.
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing
(whatever it is) that glitters on the earth--
we call it life. We know no other.
The underworld's a blank
and all the rest just fantasy.
- Anne Carson
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.
- David Gemmell
Shield of Thunder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.
- Philippe Claudel
Brodeck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The reaper does not listen to the harvest.
- Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just know I am
Not there to catch you
But I am there for you
- Caleb Warta/Ritter
My Sanity: The Ramblings of a Mad Man
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
- Sri Chinmoy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death
- Brandon Scott Gorrell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave.
- Stonewall Jackson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.
- Herman Wouk
Don't Stop the Carnival
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You must not resist life when it becomes inconvenient to live. You cannot outrun fear. You should not ignore pain. You will not outlive death.
- Tahereh Mafi
All This Twisted Glory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and accomplished. And this knowledge began to pull Hollis apart, with a slow, quivering precision.
- Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I shall plunge down into the abysmal horror of madness and death—or I shall walk upon the dawn.
- Mariana Enríquez
A Sunny Place for Shady People
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.
- Maurice Druon
The Iron King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Morrie,” Koppel said, “that was seventy years ago your mother died. The pain still goes on?”
“You bet,” Morrie whispered.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I'm to die a mortal, why shouldn't the same fate be given to all, no matter how long they've lived or how important they think they are? All things must eventually come to an end.
- Morgan Rhodes
Falling Kingdoms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.
- Emily M. Danforth
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that breathless silence is
the music of the dark
and it’s part of the rhythm
to vanish like a spark.
- Wisława Szymborska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
- Jim Butcher
Turn Coat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love
- Madame De Stael
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.
- Christopher Buecheler
The Blood That Bonds
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.
- Tim Kreider
We Learn Nothing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive.
- Lauren DeStefanos
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labour, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

We passed the school where children played,
Their lessons scarcely done;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now every mortal has pain
and sweat is constant,
but if there is anything dearer than being alive,
it's dark to me.
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing
(whatever it is) that glitters on the earth--
we call it life. We know no other.
The underworld's a blank
and all the rest just fantasy.
- Anne Carson
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are tiny flames, Helikaon, and we flicker alone in the great dark for no more than a heartbeat. When we strive for wealth, glory and fame, it is meaningless. The nations we fight for will one day cease to be. Even the mountains we gaze upon will crumble to dust. To truly live we must yearn for that which does not die.
- David Gemmell
Shield of Thunder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served.
- Philippe Claudel
Brodeck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The reaper does not listen to the harvest.
- Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just know I am
Not there to catch you
But I am there for you
- Caleb Warta/Ritter
My Sanity: The Ramblings of a Mad Man
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
- Sri Chinmoy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death
- Brandon Scott Gorrell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My religious beliefs teach me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time of my death. I do not concern myself with that, but to be always ready whenever it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and all men would be equally brave.
- Stonewall Jackson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.
- Herman Wouk
Don't Stop the Carnival
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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