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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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God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.
- Elif Shafak
The Forty Rules of Love
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Lebih banyak orang menghadapi kematian di atas tempat tidur daripada orang yang mati di atas pesawat.
Tetapi kenapa lebih banyak orang yang takut mati ketika menaiki pesawat daripada orang yang takut menaiki tempat tidur.

More people can see the face of death while their sleep in their own bed rather than people who can see the face of death while their flying in the plane.
But why more people scare to take a plane than people who take a bed.
- Hamka
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Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.
- Zeena Schreck
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Making a Fist

For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern
past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.

"How do you know if you are going to die?"
I begged my mother.
We had been traveling for days.
With strange confidence she answered,
"When you can no longer make a fist."

Years later I smile to think of that journey,
the borders we must cross separately,
stamped with our unanswerable woes.
I who did not die, who am still living,
still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,
clenching and opening one small hand.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
Words Under the Words: Selected Poems
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
- John Arbuthnot
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Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.'
'No.'
'It might be important.'
'It might make her die.
- Jenny Downham
Before I Die
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When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’
‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’
I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
- J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan
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Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath.
- John Keats
Complete Poems and Selected Letters
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I have a serious question."

"I will give a serious answer."

"Can a god be killed?"

The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist."

"What's the difference?"

"The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.
- Ilona Andrews
Gunmetal Magic
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Yes, he is here in this
open field, in sunlight, among
the few young trees set out
to modify the bare facts--

he's here, but only
because we are here.
When we go, he goes with us

to be your hands that never
do violence, your eyes
that wonder, your lives

that daily praise life
by living it, by laughter.

He is never alone here,
never cold in the field of graves.
- Denise Levertov
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But you're dead,' said Harry.
'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.
'Then... am I dead too?'
'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!
- Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
- Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
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I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.
- Davey Havok
Pop Kids
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The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
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I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.
- Prosper Mérimée
Carmen
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He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.
- Richard Bachman
The Long Walk
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Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark
- Thomas Hobbes
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Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.
- Richard Curtis
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Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue.
...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.
- Jenny Downham
Before I Die
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There is something female about being dead.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Blonde
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Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.
- Gore Vidal
Messiah
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God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.
- Elif Shafak
The Forty Rules of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lebih banyak orang menghadapi kematian di atas tempat tidur daripada orang yang mati di atas pesawat.
Tetapi kenapa lebih banyak orang yang takut mati ketika menaiki pesawat daripada orang yang takut menaiki tempat tidur.

More people can see the face of death while their sleep in their own bed rather than people who can see the face of death while their flying in the plane.
But why more people scare to take a plane than people who take a bed.
- Hamka
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.
- Zeena Schreck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Making a Fist

For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern
past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.

"How do you know if you are going to die?"
I begged my mother.
We had been traveling for days.
With strange confidence she answered,
"When you can no longer make a fist."

Years later I smile to think of that journey,
the borders we must cross separately,
stamped with our unanswerable woes.
I who did not die, who am still living,
still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,
clenching and opening one small hand.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
Words Under the Words: Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
- John Arbuthnot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.'
'No.'
'It might be important.'
'It might make her die.
- Jenny Downham
Before I Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’
‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’
I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
- J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath.
- John Keats
Complete Poems and Selected Letters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have a serious question."

"I will give a serious answer."

"Can a god be killed?"

The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist."

"What's the difference?"

"The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.
- Ilona Andrews
Gunmetal Magic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes, he is here in this
open field, in sunlight, among
the few young trees set out
to modify the bare facts--

he's here, but only
because we are here.
When we go, he goes with us

to be your hands that never
do violence, your eyes
that wonder, your lives

that daily praise life
by living it, by laughter.

He is never alone here,
never cold in the field of graves.
- Denise Levertov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But you're dead,' said Harry.
'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.
'Then... am I dead too?'
'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!
- Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
- Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.
- Davey Havok
Pop Kids
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.
- Prosper Mérimée
Carmen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.
- Richard Bachman
The Long Walk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark
- Thomas Hobbes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.
- Richard Curtis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue.
...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.
- Jenny Downham
Before I Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is something female about being dead.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Blonde
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.
- Gore Vidal
Messiah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.
- Elif Shafak
The Forty Rules of Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lebih banyak orang menghadapi kematian di atas tempat tidur daripada orang yang mati di atas pesawat.
Tetapi kenapa lebih banyak orang yang takut mati ketika menaiki pesawat daripada orang yang takut menaiki tempat tidur.

More people can see the face of death while their sleep in their own bed rather than people who can see the face of death while their flying in the plane.
But why more people scare to take a plane than people who take a bed.
- Hamka
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.
- Zeena Schreck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Making a Fist

For the first time, on the road north of Tampico,
I felt the life sliding out of me,
a drum in the desert, harder and harder to hear.
I was seven, I lay in the car
watching palm trees swirl a sickening pattern
past the glass.
My stomach was a melon split wide inside my skin.

"How do you know if you are going to die?"
I begged my mother.
We had been traveling for days.
With strange confidence she answered,
"When you can no longer make a fist."

Years later I smile to think of that journey,
the borders we must cross separately,
stamped with our unanswerable woes.
I who did not die, who am still living,
still lying in the backseat behind all my questions,
clenching and opening one small hand.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
Words Under the Words: Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
- John Arbuthnot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.'
'No.'
'It might be important.'
'It might make her die.
- Jenny Downham
Before I Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’
‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’
I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
- J.M. Barrie
Peter Pan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath.
- John Keats
Complete Poems and Selected Letters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have a serious question."

"I will give a serious answer."

"Can a god be killed?"

The humor drained from Roman's face. "Well, that depends on if you're a pantheist or a Marxist."

"What's the difference?"

"The first believes that divinity is the universe. The two are synonymous and nonexistent without each other. The second believes in anthropocentrism, seeing man in the center of the universe, and god as just an invention of human conscience. Of course, if you follow Nietzsche, you can kill God just by thinking about him.
- Ilona Andrews
Gunmetal Magic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes, he is here in this
open field, in sunlight, among
the few young trees set out
to modify the bare facts--

he's here, but only
because we are here.
When we go, he goes with us

to be your hands that never
do violence, your eyes
that wonder, your lives

that daily praise life
by living it, by laughter.

He is never alone here,
never cold in the field of graves.
- Denise Levertov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But you're dead,' said Harry.
'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly.
'Then... am I dead too?'
'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It can't be that life is so senseless and horrible. But if it really has been so horrible and senseless, why must I die and die in agony? There is something wrong!
- Leo Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.
- Tom Robbins
Jitterbug Perfume
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders." Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.
- Davey Havok
Pop Kids
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don't mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation's problems would be another 100 Year War.
- Hunter S. Thompson
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.
- Benedict Cumberbatch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'll follow you, even to death—but I won't live with you any more.
- Prosper Mérimée
Carmen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He watched his feet, the only things that were keeping him from finding out if there really was a Kingdom of Heaven or not.
- Richard Bachman
The Long Walk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark
- Thomas Hobbes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.
- Richard Curtis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see - the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But all that is warm will go cold. My ears will fall off and my eyes will melt. My mouth will be clamped shut. My lips will turn to glue.
...No taste or smell or touch or sound.Nothing to look at. Total emptiness for ever.
- Jenny Downham
Before I Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is something female about being dead.
- Joyce Carol Oates
Blonde
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life will be wonderful when men no longer fear dying. When the last superstitions are thrown out and we meet death with the same equanimity as life. No longer will children's minds be twisted by evil gods whose fantastic origin is in those barbaric tribes who feared death and lightning, who feared life. That's it: life is the villain to to those who preach reward in death, through grace and eternal bliss, or through dark revenge.
- Gore Vidal
Messiah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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