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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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I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a body my bones and heart and soul had loved with unfathomable certainty for decades, and both of us down deep now, lost to everything but the fact of bare bones on a dark seabed.
- Ali Smith
Girl Meets Boy
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...beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter.
- C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
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They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers.
- Rebecca Serle
When You Were Mine
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I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.
- Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
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A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
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Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
- Wilfred Owen
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
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Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
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Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
- Alexander Gordon Smith
Lockdown
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However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for him nothing is impossible, it's simply that he wouldn't know what face to wear when introducing himself to the beings he supposedly created and who probably wouldn't recognize him anyway. There are those who say we're very fortunate that god chooses not to appear before us, because compared with the shock we would get were such a thing to happen, our fear of death would be mere child's play. Besides, all the many things that have been said about god and about death are nothing but stories, and this is just another one.
- José Saramago
Death with Interruptions
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Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited to-day; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friends--the end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also!
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
- H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
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We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
- Russell Shorto
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
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Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.
- Patience Johnson
Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
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If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying.
- Claire-Louise Bennett
Pond
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WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU FEEL WARM AND CONTENT AND WISH THINGS WOULD STAY THAT WAY?
'I guess you'd call it happiness,' said Harga.
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Silence is a lie that screams at the light.
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Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.
- Oliver Gaspirtz
Pet Humor!
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The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc.
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For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
- Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
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You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.
- Dee Remy
There Once Was A Boy
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It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.
- Washington Irving
The Sketch Book
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Part of this experience involves your being able to say to a person who is dying, "You are loved. You are beautiful. You are like a newborn babe, going into another realm. Release now anyone, and everything, that is a burden to you. Release everything and know that you have lived your life to the fullest. There is no judgment on you. Go in peace, put a smile on your face, and release any judgments you hold. Relax, and allow your life to have meaning as you embark on the next phase of your identity.
- Barbara Marciniak
Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library
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Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.
- Louis Bayard
The Pale Blue Eye
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Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.
- Peter Høeg
Smilla's Sense of Snow
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I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a body my bones and heart and soul had loved with unfathomable certainty for decades, and both of us down deep now, lost to everything but the fact of bare bones on a dark seabed.
- Ali Smith
Girl Meets Boy
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...beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter.
- C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers.
- Rebecca Serle
When You Were Mine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.
- Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
- Wilfred Owen
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
- Alexander Gordon Smith
Lockdown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for him nothing is impossible, it's simply that he wouldn't know what face to wear when introducing himself to the beings he supposedly created and who probably wouldn't recognize him anyway. There are those who say we're very fortunate that god chooses not to appear before us, because compared with the shock we would get were such a thing to happen, our fear of death would be mere child's play. Besides, all the many things that have been said about god and about death are nothing but stories, and this is just another one.
- José Saramago
Death with Interruptions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited to-day; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friends--the end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also!
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
- H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
- Russell Shorto
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.
- Patience Johnson
Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying.
- Claire-Louise Bennett
Pond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU FEEL WARM AND CONTENT AND WISH THINGS WOULD STAY THAT WAY?
'I guess you'd call it happiness,' said Harga.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Silence is a lie that screams at the light.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.
- Oliver Gaspirtz
Pet Humor!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
- Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.
- Dee Remy
There Once Was A Boy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.
- Washington Irving
The Sketch Book
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Part of this experience involves your being able to say to a person who is dying, "You are loved. You are beautiful. You are like a newborn babe, going into another realm. Release now anyone, and everything, that is a burden to you. Release everything and know that you have lived your life to the fullest. There is no judgment on you. Go in peace, put a smile on your face, and release any judgments you hold. Relax, and allow your life to have meaning as you embark on the next phase of your identity.
- Barbara Marciniak
Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.
- Louis Bayard
The Pale Blue Eye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.
- Peter Høeg
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wished that my own bones were unbound, I wished they were mingling, picked clean by fish, with the bones of another body, a body my bones and heart and soul had loved with unfathomable certainty for decades, and both of us down deep now, lost to everything but the fact of bare bones on a dark seabed.
- Ali Smith
Girl Meets Boy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is hard to have patience with people who say, ‘There is no death’ or ‘Death doesn’t matter.’ There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as wel say that birth doesn’t matter.
- C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They died together; they'll always be remembered together. It's decided, once and for all. He was hers.
- Rebecca Serle
When You Were Mine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being led to slaughter, or sometimes hanging out with lions in ill-advised relationships.
- Maureen Johnson
The Name of the Star
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.
- Wilfred Owen
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
- Alexander Gordon Smith
Lockdown
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
However hard he tried, he could never manage to make himself visible to human eyes and not because he can't, since for him nothing is impossible, it's simply that he wouldn't know what face to wear when introducing himself to the beings he supposedly created and who probably wouldn't recognize him anyway. There are those who say we're very fortunate that god chooses not to appear before us, because compared with the shock we would get were such a thing to happen, our fear of death would be mere child's play. Besides, all the many things that have been said about god and about death are nothing but stories, and this is just another one.
- José Saramago
Death with Interruptions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited to-day; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friends--the end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also!
Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
- H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death.
- Russell Shorto
Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.
- Patience Johnson
Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying.
- Claire-Louise Bennett
Pond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
WHAT IS IT CALLED WHEN YOU FEEL WARM AND CONTENT AND WISH THINGS WOULD STAY THAT WAY?
'I guess you'd call it happiness,' said Harga.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Silence is a lie that screams at the light.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you.
- Oliver Gaspirtz
Pet Humor!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
- Thomas Mann
The Magic Mountain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You may say suicide is a loss of control and cowardly. Foolish as it may sound, I am prepared to argue.
- Dee Remy
There Once Was A Boy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs, and telling the lapse of the hour, which, like a billow, has rolled us onward towards the grave.
- Washington Irving
The Sketch Book
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Part of this experience involves your being able to say to a person who is dying, "You are loved. You are beautiful. You are like a newborn babe, going into another realm. Release now anyone, and everything, that is a burden to you. Release everything and know that you have lived your life to the fullest. There is no judgment on you. Go in peace, put a smile on your face, and release any judgments you hold. Relax, and allow your life to have meaning as you embark on the next phase of your identity.
- Barbara Marciniak
Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.
- Louis Bayard
The Pale Blue Eye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.
- Peter Høeg
Smilla's Sense of Snow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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