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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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and that makes him wish all over again that his dad would stop crying, so he can have a turn.
- Nick Cave
The Death of Bunny Munro
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Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
No man is an island – A selection from the prose
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We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration
- Peter Redgrove
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Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
- Victor J. Stenger
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The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.
- Thomm Quackenbush
Of Christmas Present
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Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
- Brent Weeks
The Broken Eye
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But at a certain point we turn round, almost instinctively,
and see that a gate has been bolted behind us, barring our way back (...)
Then we understand that time is passing and that one day or another the road must come to an end.
- Dino Buzzati
The Tartar Steppe
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Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully lived to love.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Think Great: Be Great!
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We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started.
- Tess Sharpe
Far From You
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Philosophy eulogises death, perturbs lives.
- Alok Mishra
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The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
- Albert Camus
L'Étranger
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Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
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You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Ain't She Sweet?
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You gave birth to your own death.
- Euripides
Electra
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Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.
- Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
- Richard Wright
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I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.
- Robert Walser
Masquerade and Other Stories
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Try to remember some details. For the world
is filled with people who were torn from their sleep
with no one to mend the tear,
and unlike wild beasts they live
each in his lonely hiding place and they die
together on battlefields
and in hospitals.
And the earth will swallow all of them,
good and evil together, like the followers of Korah,
all of them in their rebellion against death,
their mouths open till the last moment,
praising and cursing in a single
howl. Try, try
to remember some details.
- Yehuda Amichai
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Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
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The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.
- Irvine Welsh
Filth
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I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now I have lost Jean. How poor I am, who was once so rich! . . . Jean lies yonder, I sit here; we are strangers under our own roof; we kissed hands good-by at this door last night--and it was forever, we never suspecting it. She lies there, and I sit here--writing, busying myself, to keep my heart from breaking. How dazzling the sunshine is flooding the hills around! It is like a mockery. Seventy-four years ago twenty-four days. Seventy-four years old yesterday. Who can estimate my age today?
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Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.
- Nenia Campbell
Terrorscape
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Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order
- David Gerrold
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How the thought of meeting lost loved ones would sweeten one's last moments, how eagerly would one embrace them, and what bliss to live together once more in immortality! He suffered agonies when he considered religion's charitable lie, which compassionately conceals the terrible truth from feeble creatures. No, everything finished at death, nothing that we had loved was ever reborn, our farewells were for ever. For ever! For ever! That was the dreadful thought that carried his mind hurtling down abysses of emptiness.
- Émile Zola
The Joy of Life
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and that makes him wish all over again that his dad would stop crying, so he can have a turn.
- Nick Cave
The Death of Bunny Munro
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Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
No man is an island – A selection from the prose
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We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration
- Peter Redgrove
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Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
- Victor J. Stenger
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The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.
- Thomm Quackenbush
Of Christmas Present
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Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
- Brent Weeks
The Broken Eye
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But at a certain point we turn round, almost instinctively,
and see that a gate has been bolted behind us, barring our way back (...)
Then we understand that time is passing and that one day or another the road must come to an end.
- Dino Buzzati
The Tartar Steppe
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Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully lived to love.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Think Great: Be Great!
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We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started.
- Tess Sharpe
Far From You
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Philosophy eulogises death, perturbs lives.
- Alok Mishra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
- Albert Camus
L'Étranger
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Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
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You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Ain't She Sweet?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You gave birth to your own death.
- Euripides
Electra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.
- Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star
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If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
- Richard Wright
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I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.
- Robert Walser
Masquerade and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Try to remember some details. For the world
is filled with people who were torn from their sleep
with no one to mend the tear,
and unlike wild beasts they live
each in his lonely hiding place and they die
together on battlefields
and in hospitals.
And the earth will swallow all of them,
good and evil together, like the followers of Korah,
all of them in their rebellion against death,
their mouths open till the last moment,
praising and cursing in a single
howl. Try, try
to remember some details.
- Yehuda Amichai
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
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The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.
- Irvine Welsh
Filth
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I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now I have lost Jean. How poor I am, who was once so rich! . . . Jean lies yonder, I sit here; we are strangers under our own roof; we kissed hands good-by at this door last night--and it was forever, we never suspecting it. She lies there, and I sit here--writing, busying myself, to keep my heart from breaking. How dazzling the sunshine is flooding the hills around! It is like a mockery. Seventy-four years ago twenty-four days. Seventy-four years old yesterday. Who can estimate my age today?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.
- Nenia Campbell
Terrorscape
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order
- David Gerrold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How the thought of meeting lost loved ones would sweeten one's last moments, how eagerly would one embrace them, and what bliss to live together once more in immortality! He suffered agonies when he considered religion's charitable lie, which compassionately conceals the terrible truth from feeble creatures. No, everything finished at death, nothing that we had loved was ever reborn, our farewells were for ever. For ever! For ever! That was the dreadful thought that carried his mind hurtling down abysses of emptiness.
- Émile Zola
The Joy of Life
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and that makes him wish all over again that his dad would stop crying, so he can have a turn.
- Nick Cave
The Death of Bunny Munro
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
No man is an island – A selection from the prose
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration
- Peter Redgrove
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Selling eternal life is an unbeatable business, with no customers ever asking for their money back after the goods are not delivered.
- Victor J. Stenger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The body tries to stop the mind from killing itself, no matter the cost. It is only the lack of strength, the fatigue that lets the jumpers fall at last.
- Thomm Quackenbush
Of Christmas Present
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.
- Brent Weeks
The Broken Eye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But at a certain point we turn round, almost instinctively,
and see that a gate has been bolted behind us, barring our way back (...)
Then we understand that time is passing and that one day or another the road must come to an end.
- Dino Buzzati
The Tartar Steppe
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully lived to love.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Think Great: Be Great!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started.
- Tess Sharpe
Far From You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Philosophy eulogises death, perturbs lives.
- Alok Mishra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
- Albert Camus
L'Étranger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Ain't She Sweet?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You gave birth to your own death.
- Euripides
Electra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.
- Clarice Lispector
The Hour of the Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.
- Richard Wright
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'd like to die listening to a piece of music. I imagine this as so easy, so natural, but naturally it's quite impossible. Notes stab too softly. The wounds they leave behind may smart, but they don't fester. Melancholy and pain trickle out instead of blood. When the notes cease, all is peaceful within me again.
- Robert Walser
Masquerade and Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Try to remember some details. For the world
is filled with people who were torn from their sleep
with no one to mend the tear,
and unlike wild beasts they live
each in his lonely hiding place and they die
together on battlefields
and in hospitals.
And the earth will swallow all of them,
good and evil together, like the followers of Korah,
all of them in their rebellion against death,
their mouths open till the last moment,
praising and cursing in a single
howl. Try, try
to remember some details.
- Yehuda Amichai
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.
- Iain Pears
The Dream of Scipio
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.
- Irvine Welsh
Filth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now I have lost Jean. How poor I am, who was once so rich! . . . Jean lies yonder, I sit here; we are strangers under our own roof; we kissed hands good-by at this door last night--and it was forever, we never suspecting it. She lies there, and I sit here--writing, busying myself, to keep my heart from breaking. How dazzling the sunshine is flooding the hills around! It is like a mockery. Seventy-four years ago twenty-four days. Seventy-four years old yesterday. Who can estimate my age today?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once a flower is picked it immediately begins to die.
- Nenia Campbell
Terrorscape
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order
- David Gerrold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How the thought of meeting lost loved ones would sweeten one's last moments, how eagerly would one embrace them, and what bliss to live together once more in immortality! He suffered agonies when he considered religion's charitable lie, which compassionately conceals the terrible truth from feeble creatures. No, everything finished at death, nothing that we had loved was ever reborn, our farewells were for ever. For ever! For ever! That was the dreadful thought that carried his mind hurtling down abysses of emptiness.
- Émile Zola
The Joy of Life
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