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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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She has forgotten dying.
- Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood
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T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers.
- Michael Punke
The Revenant
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Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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We are all of life
who stepped from the sea
trading weightless journeys of the currents
We are all of life
who build and tear down and build again
to find gold and silver
to find scars that weep and bleed
to step from the sea
to stay with the sea
- Tamara Rendell
Mystical Tides
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A tired man lay down his head
in a dusty room so dim,
and for so long his wife did shake
and yell to waken him.

Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stir
of sandy, red bullfights,
of powder-blasts in the air
and carnival delights.

Yet still his wife was in despair
in a dusty room so dim,
for she knew death was a whore
not far from tempting him.
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We get sombre about death. Think about Charon the ferryman rowing the souls across the Styx to the Isle of the Dead. Pretty grim stuff. Unless you think that, perhaps, at times, old Charon rows souls back to the land of the living too. Perhaps I have merely gone to rest awhile…
- Sean J. Halford
Stronger Than Lions
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When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies.
- Solange nicole
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It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.
- Lemony Snicket
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
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I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
- Terry Pratchett
Sourcery
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If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
- Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper
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A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it.

"Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
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Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
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That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.
- Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
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Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.
- Therisa Peimer
Taming Flame
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It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.
- Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning
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You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
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Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
- H. Rider Haggard
She
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I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
- Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
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Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus
Neither Victims Nor Executioners
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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone
- Richard Puz
The Carolinian
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She has forgotten dying.
- Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood
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T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers.
- Michael Punke
The Revenant
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Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all of life
who stepped from the sea
trading weightless journeys of the currents
We are all of life
who build and tear down and build again
to find gold and silver
to find scars that weep and bleed
to step from the sea
to stay with the sea
- Tamara Rendell
Mystical Tides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A tired man lay down his head
in a dusty room so dim,
and for so long his wife did shake
and yell to waken him.

Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stir
of sandy, red bullfights,
of powder-blasts in the air
and carnival delights.

Yet still his wife was in despair
in a dusty room so dim,
for she knew death was a whore
not far from tempting him.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We get sombre about death. Think about Charon the ferryman rowing the souls across the Styx to the Isle of the Dead. Pretty grim stuff. Unless you think that, perhaps, at times, old Charon rows souls back to the land of the living too. Perhaps I have merely gone to rest awhile…
- Sean J. Halford
Stronger Than Lions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies.
- Solange nicole
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.
- Lemony Snicket
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
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I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
- Terry Pratchett
Sourcery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
- Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it.

"Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.
- Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.
- Therisa Peimer
Taming Flame
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.
- Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
- H. Rider Haggard
She
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
- Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus
Neither Victims Nor Executioners
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone
- Richard Puz
The Carolinian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She has forgotten dying.
- Dylan Thomas
Under Milk Wood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
T]hey had killed him. [...] Murdered him, except he would not die. Would not die, he vowed, because he would live to kill his killers.
- Michael Punke
The Revenant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yet he refused to be depressed. Instead, Morrie had become a lightning rod of ideas.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all of life
who stepped from the sea
trading weightless journeys of the currents
We are all of life
who build and tear down and build again
to find gold and silver
to find scars that weep and bleed
to step from the sea
to stay with the sea
- Tamara Rendell
Mystical Tides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A tired man lay down his head
in a dusty room so dim,
and for so long his wife did shake
and yell to waken him.

Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stir
of sandy, red bullfights,
of powder-blasts in the air
and carnival delights.

Yet still his wife was in despair
in a dusty room so dim,
for she knew death was a whore
not far from tempting him.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We get sombre about death. Think about Charon the ferryman rowing the souls across the Styx to the Isle of the Dead. Pretty grim stuff. Unless you think that, perhaps, at times, old Charon rows souls back to the land of the living too. Perhaps I have merely gone to rest awhile…
- Sean J. Halford
Stronger Than Lions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies.
- Solange nicole
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.
- Lemony Snicket
Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
- Terry Pratchett
Sourcery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
- Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it.

"Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.
- Donna Tartt
The Goldfinch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aurelia was just about to take a sip of a mimosa when Mother Guardian snatched the flute away and promptly downed the drink in one gulp. Burping unashamedly, she said, "We can't have the validity of the marriage contracts jeopardized because the bride got rat-assed on her wedding day.
- Therisa Peimer
Taming Flame
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.
- Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.
- H. Rider Haggard
She
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
- Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.
- John Green
The Fault in Our Stars
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
- Albert Camus
Neither Victims Nor Executioners
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone
- Richard Puz
The Carolinian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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