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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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Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
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Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.
- Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.
- Kresley Cole
Dead of Winter
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they’d lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings—as a reader will. After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.
- Cornelia Funke
Inkdeath
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Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
- Stephen King
The Long Walk
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If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
- Dean Smith
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Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
- Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn
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The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.
- Erich Fromm
The Sane Society
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You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
- Stephen King
The Dark Half
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Then there’s the kind of zombie I’ve become now: the one who has lost everything—his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.
- Adam Silvera
History Is All You Left Me
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That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
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Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.
- Richard Matheson
What Dreams May Come
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What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
- John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud
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From The Other Side, Uncle Roscoe was still exercising his Second Amendment rights. Protecting me from my stalker? Or was his gun going to get me killed?
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...
- Saul Bellow
Herzog
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I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.
- Hubert Selby, Jr.
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And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blackthorns, remembering how they had fought back tears when she had told them that she had seen Mark in the tunnels of Faerie, and how he belonged to the Hunt now, and she wept for Simon and the hole in her heart where he had been, and the she would miss him every day until she died, and she wept for herself and the changes that had been wrought in her, because sometimes even change for the better felt like a little death.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
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When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
- Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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His absence is so big it's like he's there.
- Patrick Ness
The Knife of Never Letting Go
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Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.
- Kathy Acker
In Memoriam to Identity
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The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Stranger than Fiction
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Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
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Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.
- Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
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Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.
- Kresley Cole
Dead of Winter
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they’d lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings—as a reader will. After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.
- Cornelia Funke
Inkdeath
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
- Stephen King
The Long Walk
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If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
- Dean Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
- Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn
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The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.
- Erich Fromm
The Sane Society
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
- Stephen King
The Dark Half
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Then there’s the kind of zombie I’ve become now: the one who has lost everything—his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.
- Adam Silvera
History Is All You Left Me
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That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
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Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.
- Richard Matheson
What Dreams May Come
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What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
- John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud
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From The Other Side, Uncle Roscoe was still exercising his Second Amendment rights. Protecting me from my stalker? Or was his gun going to get me killed?
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
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With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...
- Saul Bellow
Herzog
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I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.
- Hubert Selby, Jr.
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And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blackthorns, remembering how they had fought back tears when she had told them that she had seen Mark in the tunnels of Faerie, and how he belonged to the Hunt now, and she wept for Simon and the hole in her heart where he had been, and the she would miss him every day until she died, and she wept for herself and the changes that had been wrought in her, because sometimes even change for the better felt like a little death.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
- Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His absence is so big it's like he's there.
- Patrick Ness
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.
- Kathy Acker
In Memoriam to Identity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Stranger than Fiction
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Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Something inside a man goes to pieces when he has to bury the only person who ever understood him. There is no time to heal that sort of wound.
- Fredrik Backman
A Man Called Ove
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.
- Kresley Cole
Dead of Winter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they’d lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings—as a reader will. After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.
- Cornelia Funke
Inkdeath
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some of these guys will go on walking long after the laws of biochemistry and handicapping have gone by the boards. There was a guy last year that crawled for two miles at four miles an hour after both of his feet cramped up at the same time, you remember reading about that? Look at Olson, he's worn out but he keeps going. That goddam Barkovitch is running on high-octane hate and he just keeps going and he's as fresh as a daisy. I don't think I can do that. I'm not tired -not really tired- yet. But I will be." The scar stood out on the side of his haggard face as he looked ahead into the darkness "And I think... when I get tired enough... I think I'll just sit down
- Stephen King
The Long Walk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.
- Dean Smith
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?
- Peter S. Beagle
The Last Unicorn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.
- Erich Fromm
The Sane Society
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.
- Stephen King
The Dark Half
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then there’s the kind of zombie I’ve become now: the one who has lost everything—his brain, his heart, his light, his direction. He wanders the world, bumping into this, tripping over that, but keeps going and going. That is life after death.
- Adam Silvera
History Is All You Left Me
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's peace - real peace. To come to the end - not to have to go on... Yes, peace.
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.
- Richard Matheson
What Dreams May Come
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him.
- John Gunther
Death Be Not Proud
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From The Other Side, Uncle Roscoe was still exercising his Second Amendment rights. Protecting me from my stalker? Or was his gun going to get me killed?
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...
- Saul Bellow
Herzog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.
- Hubert Selby, Jr.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blackthorns, remembering how they had fought back tears when she had told them that she had seen Mark in the tunnels of Faerie, and how he belonged to the Hunt now, and she wept for Simon and the hole in her heart where he had been, and the she would miss him every day until she died, and she wept for herself and the changes that had been wrought in her, because sometimes even change for the better felt like a little death.
- Cassandra Clare
City of Heavenly Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
- Thornton Wilder
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His absence is so big it's like he's there.
- Patrick Ness
The Knife of Never Letting Go
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.
- Kathy Acker
In Memoriam to Identity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Stranger than Fiction
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