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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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It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie
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Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)
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Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.
- Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
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It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
- Eugene O'Neill
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Remember

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more, day by day,
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Rossetti
The Complete Poems
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The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
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Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
"Avada Kedavra!
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.
- Robert E. Neale
The Art of Dying
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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
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Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades-
except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.
- Lee Argus
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What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
- David Levithan
Love Is the Higher Law
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Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
- Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
- Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat
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Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?
But I was doomed to live;
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
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I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."

[Letter, November 1856]
- Hector Berlioz
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For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
- Hermann Hesse
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
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Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
- Kahlil Gibran
Sand and Foam
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
- E. M. Forster
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The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
- Robert Lowell
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He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say.
- Christopher Pike
The Last Vampire
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And Death spoke to them —’”
“Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?”
“It’s a fairy tale, Harry!”
“Right, sorry. Go on.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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In Mongolia, when a dog dies, he is buried high in the hills so people cannot walk on his grave. The dog’s master whispers in the dog’s ear his wishes that the dog will return as a man in his next life. Then his tail is cut off and put beneath his head, and a piece of meat of fat is cut off and placed in his mouth to sustain his soul for its journey; before he is reincarnated, the dog’s soul is freed to travel the land, to run across the high desert plains for as long as it would like.

I learned that from a program on the National Geographic Channel, so I believe it is true. Not all dogs return as men, they say; only those who are ready.

I am ready.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
- Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels
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It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie
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Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.
- Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
- Eugene O'Neill
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more, day by day,
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Rossetti
The Complete Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
"Avada Kedavra!
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.
- Robert E. Neale
The Art of Dying
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades-
except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.
- Lee Argus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
- David Levithan
Love Is the Higher Law
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
- Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
- Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?
But I was doomed to live;
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."

[Letter, November 1856]
- Hector Berlioz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
- Hermann Hesse
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
- Kahlil Gibran
Sand and Foam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
- E. M. Forster
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
- Robert Lowell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say.
- Christopher Pike
The Last Vampire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And Death spoke to them —’”
“Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?”
“It’s a fairy tale, Harry!”
“Right, sorry. Go on.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In Mongolia, when a dog dies, he is buried high in the hills so people cannot walk on his grave. The dog’s master whispers in the dog’s ear his wishes that the dog will return as a man in his next life. Then his tail is cut off and put beneath his head, and a piece of meat of fat is cut off and placed in his mouth to sustain his soul for its journey; before he is reincarnated, the dog’s soul is freed to travel the land, to run across the high desert plains for as long as it would like.

I learned that from a program on the National Geographic Channel, so I believe it is true. Not all dogs return as men, they say; only those who are ready.

I am ready.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
- Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It’s not contagious, you know. Death is as natural as life. It’s part of the deal we made.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays With Morrie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after Hazel dies (assuming she dies), her mom will still be her mom, just as my grandmother is still my grandmother even though she has died. As long as either person is still alive, that relationship survives. (It changes, but it survives.)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong.
- Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
- Eugene O'Neill
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember

Remember me when I am gone away,
Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.
Remember me when no more, day by day,
You tell me of our future that you planned:
Only remember me; you understand
It will be late to counsel then or pray.
Yet if you should forget me for a while
And afterwards remember, do not grieve:
For if the darkness and corruption leave
A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,
Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Rossetti
The Complete Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Snape raised his wand and pointed it directly at Dumbledore.
"Avada Kedavra!
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Chronic anxiety is a state more undesirable than any other, and we will try almost any maneuver to eliminate it. Modern man is living in anxious anticipation of destruction. Such anxiety can be easily eliminated by self-destruction. As a German saying puts it: 'Better an end with terror than a terror without end.
- Robert E. Neale
The Art of Dying
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades-
except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.
- Lee Argus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.
- David Levithan
Love Is the Higher Law
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Believe me, when you die, it's everybody else's but your problem
- Cecelia Ahern
The Gift
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
- Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents: how many brides and youthful lovers have been one day in the bloom of health and hope, and the next a prey for worms and the decay of the tomb! Of what materials was I made, that I could thus resist so many shocks, which, like the turning of the wheel, continually renewed the torture?
But I was doomed to live;
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."

[Letter, November 1856]
- Hector Berlioz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal.
- Hermann Hesse
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
- Kahlil Gibran
Sand and Foam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
- E. M. Forster
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
- Robert Lowell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.'
I lean over. My hair smothers him.
'Then you should never have been born,' I say.
- Christopher Pike
The Last Vampire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And Death spoke to them —’”
“Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?”
“It’s a fairy tale, Harry!”
“Right, sorry. Go on.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In Mongolia, when a dog dies, he is buried high in the hills so people cannot walk on his grave. The dog’s master whispers in the dog’s ear his wishes that the dog will return as a man in his next life. Then his tail is cut off and put beneath his head, and a piece of meat of fat is cut off and placed in his mouth to sustain his soul for its journey; before he is reincarnated, the dog’s soul is freed to travel the land, to run across the high desert plains for as long as it would like.

I learned that from a program on the National Geographic Channel, so I believe it is true. Not all dogs return as men, they say; only those who are ready.

I am ready.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
- Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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