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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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Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household world that it always was,
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It it the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.
- Henry Scott Holland
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We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
- Stephen King
Danse Macabre
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I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...
- Maurice Sendak
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The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.
- Carlos Castaneda
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
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If I could take a bite of the whole world
And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for a minute or so...
But I don’t always want to be happy.
Sometimes you have to be
Unhappy to be natural...

Not every day is sunny.
When there’s been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come.
So I take unhappiness with happiness
Naturally, like someone who doesn’t find it strange
That there are mountains and plains
And that there are cliffs and grass...

What you need is to be natural and calm
In happiness and in unhappiness,
To feel like someone seeing,
To think like someone walking,
And when it’s time to die, remember the day dies,
And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful...
That’s how it is and that’s how it should be...
- Alberto Caeiro
The Keeper of Sheep
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But I couldn’t help thinking—Who the hell eats bats? Probably nothing.
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
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Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
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Celaena knew where she was before she awoke. And she didn't care. She was living the same story again and again.
The night she'd been captured, she'd also snapped, and come so close to killing the person she most wanted to destroy before someone knocked her out and she awoke in a rotting dungeon. She smiled bitterly as she opened her eyes. It was always the same story, the same loss.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
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… la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre.
- José Saramago
Death with Interruptions
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She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.
- Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale
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I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.

Whoever I had become had to die.
- Craig Ferguson
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
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Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
- Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage
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Everything begins and ends. Every day and night, every concerto, every relationship, every life. Everything ends eventually.
- Lisa Genova
Every Note Played
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Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?
- Lilith Saintcrow
Reckoning
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But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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There are five things we need to say to people we love before they die…: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.
- Jodi Picoult
The Book of Two Ways
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If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead."
"Dead?" said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.
- Diana Wynne Jones
Howl’s Moving Castle
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That was it. Shogo stopped breathing. The dim yellow light falling from the ceiling of the pilothouse shone on his pale face. He seemed at ease.

"Shogo!" Shuya yelled. He still had more to say. "You'll see Keiko! You'll be happy with her! You're--"

It was too late. Shogo couldn't hear anything anymore. But his face just looked so damned peaceful.

"Damn it." Shuya's lips trembled along with his words. "Damn it."

Holding Shogo's hands, Noriko was crying.

Shuya also put his hand on Shogo's thick hand. A thought occured to him. He searched through Shogo's pockets and found the red bird call. He pressed it into Shogo's right hand and closed his hands over it so he could hold it. Shuya then finally burst into tears.
- Koushun Takami
Battle Royale
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Most things may never happen: this one will.
- Philip Larkin
Aubade
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Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
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They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
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The monster nevers dies.
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If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
- Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
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Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.
- José Saramago
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household world that it always was,
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It it the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.
- Henry Scott Holland
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
- Stephen King
Danse Macabre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...
- Maurice Sendak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.
- Carlos Castaneda
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I could take a bite of the whole world
And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for a minute or so...
But I don’t always want to be happy.
Sometimes you have to be
Unhappy to be natural...

Not every day is sunny.
When there’s been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come.
So I take unhappiness with happiness
Naturally, like someone who doesn’t find it strange
That there are mountains and plains
And that there are cliffs and grass...

What you need is to be natural and calm
In happiness and in unhappiness,
To feel like someone seeing,
To think like someone walking,
And when it’s time to die, remember the day dies,
And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful...
That’s how it is and that’s how it should be...
- Alberto Caeiro
The Keeper of Sheep
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But I couldn’t help thinking—Who the hell eats bats? Probably nothing.
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Celaena knew where she was before she awoke. And she didn't care. She was living the same story again and again.
The night she'd been captured, she'd also snapped, and come so close to killing the person she most wanted to destroy before someone knocked her out and she awoke in a rotting dungeon. She smiled bitterly as she opened her eyes. It was always the same story, the same loss.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
… la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre.
- José Saramago
Death with Interruptions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.
- Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.

Whoever I had become had to die.
- Craig Ferguson
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
- Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything begins and ends. Every day and night, every concerto, every relationship, every life. Everything ends eventually.
- Lisa Genova
Every Note Played
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?
- Lilith Saintcrow
Reckoning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are five things we need to say to people we love before they die…: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.
- Jodi Picoult
The Book of Two Ways
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead."
"Dead?" said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.
- Diana Wynne Jones
Howl’s Moving Castle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That was it. Shogo stopped breathing. The dim yellow light falling from the ceiling of the pilothouse shone on his pale face. He seemed at ease.

"Shogo!" Shuya yelled. He still had more to say. "You'll see Keiko! You'll be happy with her! You're--"

It was too late. Shogo couldn't hear anything anymore. But his face just looked so damned peaceful.

"Damn it." Shuya's lips trembled along with his words. "Damn it."

Holding Shogo's hands, Noriko was crying.

Shuya also put his hand on Shogo's thick hand. A thought occured to him. He searched through Shogo's pockets and found the red bird call. He pressed it into Shogo's right hand and closed his hands over it so he could hold it. Shuya then finally burst into tears.
- Koushun Takami
Battle Royale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most things may never happen: this one will.
- Philip Larkin
Aubade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The monster nevers dies.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
- Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.
- José Saramago
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.
Call me by my old familiar name,
Speak to me in the easy way which you always used
Put no difference in your tone,
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household world that it always was,
Let it be spoken without effect, without the trace of shadow on it.
Life means all that it ever meant.
It it the same as it ever was, there is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near,
Just around the corner.
All is well.
- Henry Scott Holland
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
- Stephen King
Danse Macabre
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more...
- Maurice Sendak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.
- Carlos Castaneda
Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I could take a bite of the whole world
And feel it on my palate
I’d be more happy for a minute or so...
But I don’t always want to be happy.
Sometimes you have to be
Unhappy to be natural...

Not every day is sunny.
When there’s been no rain for a while, you pray for it to come.
So I take unhappiness with happiness
Naturally, like someone who doesn’t find it strange
That there are mountains and plains
And that there are cliffs and grass...

What you need is to be natural and calm
In happiness and in unhappiness,
To feel like someone seeing,
To think like someone walking,
And when it’s time to die, remember the day dies,
And the sunset is beautiful, and the endless night is beautiful...
That’s how it is and that’s how it should be...
- Alberto Caeiro
The Keeper of Sheep
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But I couldn’t help thinking—Who the hell eats bats? Probably nothing.
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;
Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore
Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn
Disturbs the eternal sleep,
But in the stillness far withdrawn
Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Celaena knew where she was before she awoke. And she didn't care. She was living the same story again and again.
The night she'd been captured, she'd also snapped, and come so close to killing the person she most wanted to destroy before someone knocked her out and she awoke in a rotting dungeon. She smiled bitterly as she opened her eyes. It was always the same story, the same loss.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
… la muerte, por sí misma, sola, sin ninguna ayuda exterior, siempre ha matado mucho menos que el hombre.
- José Saramago
Death with Interruptions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.
- Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.

Whoever I had become had to die.
- Craig Ferguson
American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human beings are the only ones in nature who are aware that they will die. For that reason and only for that reason, I have a profound respect for the human race, and I believe that its future is going to be much better than its present. Even knowing that their days are numbered and that everything will end when they least expect it, people make of their lives a battle that is worthy of a being with eternal life. What people regard as vanity-leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten- I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.
- Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything begins and ends. Every day and night, every concerto, every relationship, every life. Everything ends eventually.
- Lisa Genova
Every Note Played
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it?
- Lilith Saintcrow
Reckoning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled, too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are five things we need to say to people we love before they die…: I forgive you. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you. Goodbye.
- Jodi Picoult
The Book of Two Ways
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you're thinking of calling on that Mrs. Pentstemmon, you can save yourself the trouble. The old biddy's dead."
"Dead?" said Sophie. She had a silly impulse to add, But she was alive an hour ago! And she stopped herself, because death is like that: people are alive until they die.
- Diana Wynne Jones
Howl’s Moving Castle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That was it. Shogo stopped breathing. The dim yellow light falling from the ceiling of the pilothouse shone on his pale face. He seemed at ease.

"Shogo!" Shuya yelled. He still had more to say. "You'll see Keiko! You'll be happy with her! You're--"

It was too late. Shogo couldn't hear anything anymore. But his face just looked so damned peaceful.

"Damn it." Shuya's lips trembled along with his words. "Damn it."

Holding Shogo's hands, Noriko was crying.

Shuya also put his hand on Shogo's thick hand. A thought occured to him. He searched through Shogo's pockets and found the red bird call. He pressed it into Shogo's right hand and closed his hands over it so he could hold it. Shuya then finally burst into tears.
- Koushun Takami
Battle Royale
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most things may never happen: this one will.
- Philip Larkin
Aubade
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The monster nevers dies.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.
- Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it.
- José Saramago
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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