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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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Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.
- Gena Showalter
The Darkest Night
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I don't want to be caught with my pants down.
- March Lions
The Last Sunset
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It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing
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How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.
IN PAIRS.
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Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
- Charles Caleb Colton
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...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...
- Rachel Vincent
My Soul to Take
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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
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My darling, I'm waiting for you — how long is a day in the dark, or a week? The fire is gone now, and I'm horribly cold. I really ought to drag myself outside but then there would be the sun. . . I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings and on writing these words. We die, we die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we have hidden in, like this wretched cave. We are the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men. I know you will come and carry me out into the palace of winds. That's all I've wanted — to walk in such a place with you, with friends, on earth without maps...
- Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
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O corse of the Locked Tomb, she prayed silently to herself, the cold death to anyone who looks at me in pity; the heat death to anyone who looks to me in amusement; the quick death to anyone who looks at me in fear.
- Tamsyn Muir
Harrow the Ninth
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I AM NOT. AND THEN I AM. I WONDER IF THAT WAS DEATH.
- Amie Kaufman
Illuminae
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I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.
- Robert Fanney
The War of Mists
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The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.
- Caitlin Doughty
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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On the Death of his Child

Dew Evaporates
And all our world is dew...so dear,
So fresh, so fleeting
- Issa
Japanese Haiku
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death – ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
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Now comes the mystery! (last words)
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.
- Émile Zola
L'Assommoir
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The one close to me now,
even my own body-
these too
will soon become clouds,
floating in different directions.
- Izumi Shikibu
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
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DEATH

Why do you fear me?
I am your friend.
I but guide trav'lers
Rounding the bend ---
Lead them to freedom
From time and age,
Help them start writing a new page...

Seek for me never,
Keep your course true ---
When I am needed
I'll come to you,
Then I will show you
Roads without end ---
Why do you fear me?
I am your friend.
- Clarence E. Flynn
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Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.
- Luellen Hoffman
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Because Peter promised them adventures and happiness and then took them away to the island where they died. They weren’t forever young, unless dying when you were young kept you that way for always.
- Christina Henry
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
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Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
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As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .
- Emil Cioran
A Short History of Decay
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From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
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I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
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Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.
- Gena Showalter
The Darkest Night
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I don't want to be caught with my pants down.
- March Lions
The Last Sunset
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It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.
IN PAIRS.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
- Charles Caleb Colton
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...
- Rachel Vincent
My Soul to Take
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My darling, I'm waiting for you — how long is a day in the dark, or a week? The fire is gone now, and I'm horribly cold. I really ought to drag myself outside but then there would be the sun. . . I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings and on writing these words. We die, we die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we have hidden in, like this wretched cave. We are the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men. I know you will come and carry me out into the palace of winds. That's all I've wanted — to walk in such a place with you, with friends, on earth without maps...
- Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
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O corse of the Locked Tomb, she prayed silently to herself, the cold death to anyone who looks at me in pity; the heat death to anyone who looks to me in amusement; the quick death to anyone who looks at me in fear.
- Tamsyn Muir
Harrow the Ninth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I AM NOT. AND THEN I AM. I WONDER IF THAT WAS DEATH.
- Amie Kaufman
Illuminae
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.
- Robert Fanney
The War of Mists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.
- Caitlin Doughty
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On the Death of his Child

Dew Evaporates
And all our world is dew...so dear,
So fresh, so fleeting
- Issa
Japanese Haiku
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death – ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now comes the mystery! (last words)
- Henry Ward Beecher
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.
- Émile Zola
L'Assommoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The one close to me now,
even my own body-
these too
will soon become clouds,
floating in different directions.
- Izumi Shikibu
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
DEATH

Why do you fear me?
I am your friend.
I but guide trav'lers
Rounding the bend ---
Lead them to freedom
From time and age,
Help them start writing a new page...

Seek for me never,
Keep your course true ---
When I am needed
I'll come to you,
Then I will show you
Roads without end ---
Why do you fear me?
I am your friend.
- Clarence E. Flynn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.
- Luellen Hoffman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because Peter promised them adventures and happiness and then took them away to the island where they died. They weren’t forever young, unless dying when you were young kept you that way for always.
- Christina Henry
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .
- Emil Cioran
A Short History of Decay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.
- Gena Showalter
The Darkest Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't want to be caught with my pants down.
- March Lions
The Last Sunset
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Crossing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort.
IN PAIRS.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live
- Charles Caleb Colton
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...the dead have a way of becoming saints in the eyes of their survivors...
- Rachel Vincent
My Soul to Take
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My darling, I'm waiting for you — how long is a day in the dark, or a week? The fire is gone now, and I'm horribly cold. I really ought to drag myself outside but then there would be the sun. . . I'm afraid I waste the light on the paintings and on writing these words. We die, we die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we have hidden in, like this wretched cave. We are the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men. I know you will come and carry me out into the palace of winds. That's all I've wanted — to walk in such a place with you, with friends, on earth without maps...
- Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
O corse of the Locked Tomb, she prayed silently to herself, the cold death to anyone who looks at me in pity; the heat death to anyone who looks to me in amusement; the quick death to anyone who looks at me in fear.
- Tamsyn Muir
Harrow the Ninth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I AM NOT. AND THEN I AM. I WONDER IF THAT WAS DEATH.
- Amie Kaufman
Illuminae
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.
- Robert Fanney
The War of Mists
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m.
- Caitlin Doughty
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
On the Death of his Child

Dew Evaporates
And all our world is dew...so dear,
So fresh, so fleeting
- Issa
Japanese Haiku
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns, and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death – ought to decide, indeed, to earn one’s death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now comes the mystery! (last words)
- Henry Ward Beecher
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.
- Émile Zola
L'Assommoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The one close to me now,
even my own body-
these too
will soon become clouds,
floating in different directions.
- Izumi Shikibu
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
DEATH

Why do you fear me?
I am your friend.
I but guide trav'lers
Rounding the bend ---
Lead them to freedom
From time and age,
Help them start writing a new page...

Seek for me never,
Keep your course true ---
When I am needed
I'll come to you,
Then I will show you
Roads without end ---
Why do you fear me?
I am your friend.
- Clarence E. Flynn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.
- Luellen Hoffman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because Peter promised them adventures and happiness and then took them away to the island where they died. They weren’t forever young, unless dying when you were young kept you that way for always.
- Christina Henry
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .
- Emil Cioran
A Short History of Decay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From looking at your neighbor and realizing his true significance, and that he will die, pity and compassion will arise in you for him and finally you will love him.
- G.I. Gurdjieff
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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