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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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Ackx must have owed him big time,” Q said in his drawly Clint Eastwood voice. “A favour like that doesn’t come cheap.”
Bonnyman spat into the fire. “A favour like that is only made between psychosis and a lust for power.
- Frank Lambert
Xyz
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She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:

"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you."

She essayed to smile again and expired.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
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If only I could tell someone.
The humiliation I go through
when I think of my past
can only be described as grace.
We are created by being destroyed.
- Franz Wright
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He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
- Nina LaCour
Hold Still
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If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.
If that’s its time, when else should it come?
I like it that everything is real and everything is right;
And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it.
And so, if I die now, I die peacefully
Because everything is real and everything is right.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
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We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
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Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death
- John Keats
Complete Poems and Selected Letters
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A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.
- Savitri Devi
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One of them had something small and black in his hand that Johnson very much feared was  a gun. He was considering his options when he saw Goldberg’s head emerge above the latch door.
- Mark Ellis
Death of an Officer
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Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.
- Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.
- Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
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Thy soul shall find itself alone
’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone—
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy.

Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness—for then
The spirits of the dead who stood
In life before thee are again
In death around thee—and their will
Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]
- Edgar Allan Poe
Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Other Poems
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Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
- Sophocles
Electra
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In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
- Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time
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Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).
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Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.
- Greta Garbo
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There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.
- Anthon St. Maarten
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The poetry you could write about Rufus helping me out of my grave isn't lost on me.
- Adam Silvera
They Both Die at the End
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Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
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For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
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And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
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When his brain died, all of the memories
held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate
in a flood of chemical reactions.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
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Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
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Ackx must have owed him big time,” Q said in his drawly Clint Eastwood voice. “A favour like that doesn’t come cheap.”
Bonnyman spat into the fire. “A favour like that is only made between psychosis and a lust for power.
- Frank Lambert
Xyz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:

"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you."

She essayed to smile again and expired.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If only I could tell someone.
The humiliation I go through
when I think of my past
can only be described as grace.
We are created by being destroyed.
- Franz Wright
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
- Nina LaCour
Hold Still
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.
If that’s its time, when else should it come?
I like it that everything is real and everything is right;
And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it.
And so, if I die now, I die peacefully
Because everything is real and everything is right.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death
- John Keats
Complete Poems and Selected Letters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.
- Savitri Devi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of them had something small and black in his hand that Johnson very much feared was  a gun. He was considering his options when he saw Goldberg’s head emerge above the latch door.
- Mark Ellis
Death of an Officer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.
- Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.
- Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thy soul shall find itself alone
’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone—
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy.

Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness—for then
The spirits of the dead who stood
In life before thee are again
In death around thee—and their will
Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]
- Edgar Allan Poe
Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Other Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
- Sophocles
Electra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
- Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.
- Greta Garbo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.
- Anthon St. Maarten
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The poetry you could write about Rufus helping me out of my grave isn't lost on me.
- Adam Silvera
They Both Die at the End
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When his brain died, all of the memories
held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate
in a flood of chemical reactions.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ackx must have owed him big time,” Q said in his drawly Clint Eastwood voice. “A favour like that doesn’t come cheap.”
Bonnyman spat into the fire. “A favour like that is only made between psychosis and a lust for power.
- Frank Lambert
Xyz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:

"And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you."

She essayed to smile again and expired.
- Victor Hugo
Les Misérables
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If only I could tell someone.
The humiliation I go through
when I think of my past
can only be described as grace.
We are created by being destroyed.
- Franz Wright
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
- Nina LaCour
Hold Still
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.
If that’s its time, when else should it come?
I like it that everything is real and everything is right;
And I like that it would be like this even if I didn’t like it.
And so, if I die now, I die peacefully
Because everything is real and everything is right.
- Alberto Caeiro
The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep. It's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out windows, or drown themselves, or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us are slowly devoured by some disease, or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself. There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds & expectations, to burst open & give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) know these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning, we hope, more than anything for more. Heaven only knows why we love it so.
- Michael Cunningham
The Hours
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream,
And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?
---"On death
- John Keats
Complete Poems and Selected Letters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live.
- Savitri Devi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One of them had something small and black in his hand that Johnson very much feared was  a gun. He was considering his options when he saw Goldberg’s head emerge above the latch door.
- Mark Ellis
Death of an Officer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten.
- Junot Díaz
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.
- Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thy soul shall find itself alone
’Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone—
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy.

Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness—for then
The spirits of the dead who stood
In life before thee are again
In death around thee—and their will
Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]
- Edgar Allan Poe
Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Other Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.
- Sophocles
Electra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
- Ernest Hemingway
In Our Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.
- Greta Garbo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.
- Anthon St. Maarten
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The poetry you could write about Rufus helping me out of my grave isn't lost on me.
- Adam Silvera
They Both Die at the End
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then I crawled into his unmade bed, wrapping myself in his comforter like a cocoon, surrounding myself with his smell. I took out my cannula so I could smell better, breathing him and out, the scent fading even as I lay there, my chest burning until I couldn't distinguish among the pains.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When his brain died, all of the memories
held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate
in a flood of chemical reactions.
- Dan Brown
The Lost Symbol
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. What if it doesn't fire? It has to fire. Could you crush that beloved skull with a rock?
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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