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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 died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.
- Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
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Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
- Kim Harrison
Something Deadly This Way Comes
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The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
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On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.
- John Muir
A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South
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The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
- L.M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island
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From too much love of living
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Then star nor sun shall waken,
Nor any change of light:
Nor sound of waters shaken,
Nor any sound or sight:
Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,
Nor days nor things diurnal;
Only the sleep eternal
In an eternal night.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Garden of Proserpine
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The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
- Erin Hunter
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Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
- Anne Bishop
Daughter of the Blood
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Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
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I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
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Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.
- Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
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I'd always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing.
But I was wrong.
Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost - it was the combination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.
- Florence Day
- Ashley Poston
The Dead Romantics
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It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
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Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?
- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Laughing Corpse
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Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
- Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
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And then his noise falls completely silent-

And he stops struggling-

And looking right into my eyes-

He dies.

My Todd dies.
- Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men
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The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl....
- Abigail Padgett
Blue
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Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
- Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen
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My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
Dickinson: Poems
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What is this thing you call substance abuse?
All I wanna do is forget and get loose.
Drinking and smoking over and over
What's so great about a life that's sober?

There's nothing cool about being young
When the monsters of night have stolen the sun.

I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.
All I wanna do is drink and die.
Nothing is real. It's all a big lie.
All I wanna do is drink and die.

There's nothing cool about being young
When the monsters of night have stolen the sun.
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
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It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
- Dan Brown
Inferno
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Lines

I die but when the grave shall press
The heart so long endeared to thee
When earthy cares no more distress
And earthy joys are nought to me.

Weep not, but think that I have past
Before thee o'er the sea of gloom.
Have anchored safe and rest at last
Where tears and mouring can not come.

'Tis I should weep to leave thee here
On that dark ocean sailing drear
With storms around and fears before
And no kind light to point the shore.

But long or short though life may be
'Tis nothing to eternity.
We part below to meet on high
Where blissful ages never die.
- Emily Bronte
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Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that made you gone. Or set me on an airplane traveling west, crossing the date line again and again, losing this day, then that, until the day of loss still lies ahead, and you are here instead of sorrow.
- Nessa Rapoport
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The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
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She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.
- Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
- Kim Harrison
Something Deadly This Way Comes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.
- John Muir
A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
- L.M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From too much love of living
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Then star nor sun shall waken,
Nor any change of light:
Nor sound of waters shaken,
Nor any sound or sight:
Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,
Nor days nor things diurnal;
Only the sleep eternal
In an eternal night.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Garden of Proserpine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
- Erin Hunter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
- Anne Bishop
Daughter of the Blood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.
- Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'd always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing.
But I was wrong.
Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost - it was the combination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.
- Florence Day
- Ashley Poston
The Dead Romantics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?
- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Laughing Corpse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
- Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then his noise falls completely silent-

And he stops struggling-

And looking right into my eyes-

He dies.

My Todd dies.
- Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl....
- Abigail Padgett
Blue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
- Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
Dickinson: Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is this thing you call substance abuse?
All I wanna do is forget and get loose.
Drinking and smoking over and over
What's so great about a life that's sober?

There's nothing cool about being young
When the monsters of night have stolen the sun.

I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.
All I wanna do is drink and die.
Nothing is real. It's all a big lie.
All I wanna do is drink and die.

There's nothing cool about being young
When the monsters of night have stolen the sun.
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
- Dan Brown
Inferno
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lines

I die but when the grave shall press
The heart so long endeared to thee
When earthy cares no more distress
And earthy joys are nought to me.

Weep not, but think that I have past
Before thee o'er the sea of gloom.
Have anchored safe and rest at last
Where tears and mouring can not come.

'Tis I should weep to leave thee here
On that dark ocean sailing drear
With storms around and fears before
And no kind light to point the shore.

But long or short though life may be
'Tis nothing to eternity.
We part below to meet on high
Where blissful ages never die.
- Emily Bronte
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that made you gone. Or set me on an airplane traveling west, crossing the date line again and again, losing this day, then that, until the day of loss still lies ahead, and you are here instead of sorrow.
- Nessa Rapoport
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She died--this was the way she died;
And when her breath was done,
Took up her simple wardrobe
And started for the sun.
Her little figure at the gate
The angels must have spied,
Since I could never find her
Upon the mortal side.
- Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.
- Kim Harrison
Something Deadly This Way Comes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights.
- John Muir
A Thousand-Mile Walk To The Gulf: The American Naturalist's 1867 Journey Through the Post-War South
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.
- L.M. Montgomery
Anne of the Island
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From too much love of living
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Then star nor sun shall waken,
Nor any change of light:
Nor sound of waters shaken,
Nor any sound or sight:
Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,
Nor days nor things diurnal;
Only the sleep eternal
In an eternal night.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Garden of Proserpine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
- Erin Hunter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon
- Anne Bishop
Daughter of the Blood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.
- Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'd always written how grief was hollow. How it was a vast cavern of nothing.
But I was wrong.
Grief was the exact opposite. It was full and heavy and drowning because it wasn't the absence of everything you lost - it was the combination of it all, your love, your happiness, your bittersweets, wound tight like a knotted ball of yarn.
- Florence Day
- Ashley Poston
The Dead Romantics
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?
- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Laughing Corpse
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.
- Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then his noise falls completely silent-

And he stops struggling-

And looking right into my eyes-

He dies.

My Todd dies.
- Patrick Ness
Monsters of Men
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl....
- Abigail Padgett
Blue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.
- Banana Yoshimoto
Kitchen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
- Emily Dickinson
Dickinson: Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What is this thing you call substance abuse?
All I wanna do is forget and get loose.
Drinking and smoking over and over
What's so great about a life that's sober?

There's nothing cool about being young
When the monsters of night have stolen the sun.

I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.
All I wanna do is drink and die.
Nothing is real. It's all a big lie.
All I wanna do is drink and die.

There's nothing cool about being young
When the monsters of night have stolen the sun.
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
- Dan Brown
Inferno
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lines

I die but when the grave shall press
The heart so long endeared to thee
When earthy cares no more distress
And earthy joys are nought to me.

Weep not, but think that I have past
Before thee o'er the sea of gloom.
Have anchored safe and rest at last
Where tears and mouring can not come.

'Tis I should weep to leave thee here
On that dark ocean sailing drear
With storms around and fears before
And no kind light to point the shore.

But long or short though life may be
'Tis nothing to eternity.
We part below to meet on high
Where blissful ages never die.
- Emily Bronte
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Undo it, take it back, make every day the previous one until I am returned to the day before the one that made you gone. Or set me on an airplane traveling west, crossing the date line again and again, losing this day, then that, until the day of loss still lies ahead, and you are here instead of sorrow.
- Nessa Rapoport
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The fish is my friend too... I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought
- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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