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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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Ever peaceful be you slumber
Though your days were few in number
On this earth-spite took its toll-
Yet shall heaven have your soul
With pure love we did regard you
For your loved one did we guard you
But you came not to the groom
Only to a chill dark tomb
- Alexander Pushkin
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
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And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies.
- Nancy Stephan
The Truth About Butterflies: A Memoir
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The only cure for a real hangover is death.
- Robert Benchley
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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.
- George Orwell
Decline Of The English Murder and Other Essays
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We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break.
- Mihai Cristian
La Tiers Du Cylindre
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In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.
- Neil Gaiman
Signal to Noise
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Glory is the sunshine of the dead
- Honoré de Balzac
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As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.
- Nancy Horan
Loving Frank
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He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into the arms of his wife, to whom he had proved, once and for all, the superiority of his love. Some migrants are happy to depart.
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
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The air between us crackles, as it does when you speak of your beloved dead. But it’s hard to know what to say next.
- Lily King
Writers & Lovers
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Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?
- Gustav Meyrink
Angel of the West Window
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If a grave is empty, is it a grave? I wonder how Jesus would answer that.
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Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
- Dennis Rodman
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The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that ‘black hole’ is infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions—nothing but the fixity of the pensive gaze.

With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.
- Flaubert Gustave
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Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.
- John Fowles
The Magus
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It's natural to die," he said again. "The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature."

He smiled at the plant.

"We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.
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Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
- JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
- Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
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Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
- George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones
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A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor
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When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
- J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
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People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
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Ever peaceful be you slumber
Though your days were few in number
On this earth-spite took its toll-
Yet shall heaven have your soul
With pure love we did regard you
For your loved one did we guard you
But you came not to the groom
Only to a chill dark tomb
- Alexander Pushkin
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies.
- Nancy Stephan
The Truth About Butterflies: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only cure for a real hangover is death.
- Robert Benchley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.
- George Orwell
Decline Of The English Murder and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break.
- Mihai Cristian
La Tiers Du Cylindre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.
- Neil Gaiman
Signal to Noise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Glory is the sunshine of the dead
- Honoré de Balzac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.
- Nancy Horan
Loving Frank
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into the arms of his wife, to whom he had proved, once and for all, the superiority of his love. Some migrants are happy to depart.
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The air between us crackles, as it does when you speak of your beloved dead. But it’s hard to know what to say next.
- Lily King
Writers & Lovers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?
- Gustav Meyrink
Angel of the West Window
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a grave is empty, is it a grave? I wonder how Jesus would answer that.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
- Dennis Rodman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that ‘black hole’ is infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions—nothing but the fixity of the pensive gaze.

With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.
- Flaubert Gustave
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.
- John Fowles
The Magus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's natural to die," he said again. "The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature."

He smiled at the plant.

"We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
- JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
- Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
- George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
- J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ever peaceful be you slumber
Though your days were few in number
On this earth-spite took its toll-
Yet shall heaven have your soul
With pure love we did regard you
For your loved one did we guard you
But you came not to the groom
Only to a chill dark tomb
- Alexander Pushkin
The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies.
- Nancy Stephan
The Truth About Butterflies: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only cure for a real hangover is death.
- Robert Benchley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.
- George Orwell
Decline Of The English Murder and Other Essays
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break.
- Mihai Cristian
La Tiers Du Cylindre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In ten years time I’ll be… (dead) sixty.
- Neil Gaiman
Signal to Noise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Glory is the sunshine of the dead
- Honoré de Balzac
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As he watches the sun rise, what grieves him is that he failed her. He thinks of the terror she felt. They tell him it was quick, as if that will somehow confine the horror.
- Nancy Horan
Loving Frank
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He knew that his father had finally run hard enough and long enough to wear down the frontiers between the worlds, he had run clear out of his skin and into the arms of his wife, to whom he had proved, once and for all, the superiority of his love. Some migrants are happy to depart.
- Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The air between us crackles, as it does when you speak of your beloved dead. But it’s hard to know what to say next.
- Lily King
Writers & Lovers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Shouldn't we be speaking of something more important than life and death?
- Gustav Meyrink
Angel of the West Window
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a grave is empty, is it a grave? I wonder how Jesus would answer that.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
- Dennis Rodman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less imply that beyond the dark void lies immortality. But for the ancients that ‘black hole’ is infinity itself; their dreams loom and vanish against a background of immutable ebony. No crying out, no convulsions—nothing but the fixity of the pensive gaze.

With the gods gone, and Christ not yet come, there was a unique moment, from Cicero to Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone. Nowhere else do I find that particular grandeur.
- Flaubert Gustave
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death starves us of life. So we learn to fabricate our own immortalities.
- John Fowles
The Magus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's natural to die," he said again. "The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don't see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we're human we're something above nature."

He smiled at the plant.

"We're not. Everything that gets born, dies.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What a waste.. All those people saying all those wonderful things, and Irv never got to hear any of it.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What are you doing to me?” he asked the crow, tearful. Teaching you how to fly. “I can’t fly!” You’re flying right now. “I’m falling!” Every flight begins with a fall, the crow said.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
- JK Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.
- Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
- George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
- J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
- David Mitchell
Cloud Atlas
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