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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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Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.

But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.

Now hear, you blissful powers underground --
answer the call, send help.
Bless the children, give them triumph now.
- Aeschylus
The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies
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Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
- Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Paul et Virginie
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To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
- Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.
- David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
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He's waiting for yu, young queen.'

Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'

The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.
- P.C. Cast
Awakened
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If Under fell, if Over leaped,
If death was life and Death life reaped,
Something rises from the gloom,
To make the Underland a tomb

Hear it scratching down below,
Rat of long forgotten snow,
Evil cloaked in coat of White,
Will the Warrior drain your light?

What could turn the Warrior week?
What do burning Gnawers seek?
Just a barely speaking pup
That holds the Land of Under up

Die the baby, die his heart
Die his most essential part
Die the peace that rules the hour,
Gnawers have their key to power
- Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
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Let me go: take back thy gift:
Why should a man desire in any way
To vary from the kindly race of men,
Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance
Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?
...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,
And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,
In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?
‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’
- Tithonus
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.
- Rachel Vincent
Reaper
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Part of her followed him, wherever it was that he went.
- Kendare Blake
Anna Dressed in Blood
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Sometimes we feel lonely,
Like another brick
Another wall
Like no one needs you at all.
Life isn't supposed to be like that,
Just think for a while;
You’re the brick the wall needs,
You're a masterpiece.
Open your eyes,
And you'll see
All the love around you;
It was all the time beside you,
You were too blind to realize
Don´t you?
- Hareem Ch
Muse Buzz
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Death is the Graduation of the Soul
- Sylvia Browne
The Other Side and Back: A Psychic's Guide to Our World and Beyond
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The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...
- Ramez Naam
Crux
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Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
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Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His eyes were fixed on the limp heap of tabby fur huddled at his paws.
"Why, Fireheart?" Cloudtail wailed. "Why her?"
Fireheart knew, but rage and grief made it hard to speak. "Because Tigerstar wants the pack to get a taste of cat blood," he rasped.
The dead cat lying in front of them was Brindleface.
- Erin Hunter
A Dangerous Path
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If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.
- Richard Bachman
The Long Walk
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I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.
- Gemma Malley
The Declaration
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Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.
- Rick Riordan
The Blood of Olympus
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I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life.
- Melissa Broder
The Pisces
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A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
—
Dandelion
- Andrzej Sapkowski
Czas pogardy
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Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
- Annie Dillard
An American Childhood: A Poignant Memoir About Parents and Passion in 1950s Pittsburgh
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Death is harder on those who are left behind.
- Robert La Fosse
Nothing to Hide: A Dancer's Life
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
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Warmblood now a bloodborne death,
Will rob your body of it's breath
Mark your skin and seal your fate
The Underland becomes a plate
- Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.

But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.

Now hear, you blissful powers underground --
answer the call, send help.
Bless the children, give them triumph now.
- Aeschylus
The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
- Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Paul et Virginie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
- Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.
- David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He's waiting for yu, young queen.'

Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'

The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.
- P.C. Cast
Awakened
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If Under fell, if Over leaped,
If death was life and Death life reaped,
Something rises from the gloom,
To make the Underland a tomb

Hear it scratching down below,
Rat of long forgotten snow,
Evil cloaked in coat of White,
Will the Warrior drain your light?

What could turn the Warrior week?
What do burning Gnawers seek?
Just a barely speaking pup
That holds the Land of Under up

Die the baby, die his heart
Die his most essential part
Die the peace that rules the hour,
Gnawers have their key to power
- Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let me go: take back thy gift:
Why should a man desire in any way
To vary from the kindly race of men,
Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance
Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?
...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,
And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,
In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?
‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’
- Tithonus
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.
- Rachel Vincent
Reaper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Part of her followed him, wherever it was that he went.
- Kendare Blake
Anna Dressed in Blood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes we feel lonely,
Like another brick
Another wall
Like no one needs you at all.
Life isn't supposed to be like that,
Just think for a while;
You’re the brick the wall needs,
You're a masterpiece.
Open your eyes,
And you'll see
All the love around you;
It was all the time beside you,
You were too blind to realize
Don´t you?
- Hareem Ch
Muse Buzz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is the Graduation of the Soul
- Sylvia Browne
The Other Side and Back: A Psychic's Guide to Our World and Beyond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...
- Ramez Naam
Crux
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His eyes were fixed on the limp heap of tabby fur huddled at his paws.
"Why, Fireheart?" Cloudtail wailed. "Why her?"
Fireheart knew, but rage and grief made it hard to speak. "Because Tigerstar wants the pack to get a taste of cat blood," he rasped.
The dead cat lying in front of them was Brindleface.
- Erin Hunter
A Dangerous Path
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.
- Richard Bachman
The Long Walk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.
- Gemma Malley
The Declaration
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.
- Rick Riordan
The Blood of Olympus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life.
- Melissa Broder
The Pisces
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
—
Dandelion
- Andrzej Sapkowski
Czas pogardy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
- Annie Dillard
An American Childhood: A Poignant Memoir About Parents and Passion in 1950s Pittsburgh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is harder on those who are left behind.
- Robert La Fosse
Nothing to Hide: A Dancer's Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Warmblood now a bloodborne death,
Will rob your body of it's breath
Mark your skin and seal your fate
The Underland becomes a plate
- Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits the vein,
the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief,
the curse no man can bear.

But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.

Now hear, you blissful powers underground --
answer the call, send help.
Bless the children, give them triumph now.
- Aeschylus
The Oresteia Trilogy: Agamemnon, the Libation-Bearers and the Furies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death, my son, is a good thing for all men; it is the night for this worried day that we call life. It is in the sleep of death that finds rest for eternity the sickness, pain, desperation, and the fears that agitate, without end, we unhappy living souls.
- Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
Paul et Virginie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.
- Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.
- David Levithan
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He's waiting for yu, young queen.'

Shocked, I stared at Seoras. 'Heath?'

The Warrior's look was wise and understanding - his voice gentle. 'Aye, yur Heath probably does await you somewhere in the future, but it is of your Guardian I speak.
- P.C. Cast
Awakened
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If Under fell, if Over leaped,
If death was life and Death life reaped,
Something rises from the gloom,
To make the Underland a tomb

Hear it scratching down below,
Rat of long forgotten snow,
Evil cloaked in coat of White,
Will the Warrior drain your light?

What could turn the Warrior week?
What do burning Gnawers seek?
Just a barely speaking pup
That holds the Land of Under up

Die the baby, die his heart
Die his most essential part
Die the peace that rules the hour,
Gnawers have their key to power
- Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let me go: take back thy gift:
Why should a man desire in any way
To vary from the kindly race of men,
Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance
Where all should pause, as is most meet for all?
...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,
And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,
In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?
‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’
- Tithonus
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Can’t clean up after you anymore, baby brother, so don’t punk out. Make it count.
- Rachel Vincent
Reaper
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Part of her followed him, wherever it was that he went.
- Kendare Blake
Anna Dressed in Blood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes we feel lonely,
Like another brick
Another wall
Like no one needs you at all.
Life isn't supposed to be like that,
Just think for a while;
You’re the brick the wall needs,
You're a masterpiece.
Open your eyes,
And you'll see
All the love around you;
It was all the time beside you,
You were too blind to realize
Don´t you?
- Hareem Ch
Muse Buzz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is the Graduation of the Soul
- Sylvia Browne
The Other Side and Back: A Psychic's Guide to Our World and Beyond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...
- Ramez Naam
Crux
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fireheart dashed to the warrior's side. Cloudtail was standing stiff-legged, every hair in his pelt on end as if he were facing an enemy. His eyes were fixed on the limp heap of tabby fur huddled at his paws.
"Why, Fireheart?" Cloudtail wailed. "Why her?"
Fireheart knew, but rage and grief made it hard to speak. "Because Tigerstar wants the pack to get a taste of cat blood," he rasped.
The dead cat lying in front of them was Brindleface.
- Erin Hunter
A Dangerous Path
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.
- Richard Bachman
The Long Walk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter.
- Gemma Malley
The Declaration
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced.
- Rick Riordan
The Blood of Olympus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life.
- Melissa Broder
The Pisces
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A coward,' he declared with dignity, when he'd stopped coughing and had got his breath back, 'dies a hundred times. A brave man dies but once. But Dame Fortune favours the brave and holds the coward in contempt.'
—
Dandelion
- Andrzej Sapkowski
Czas pogardy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.
- Annie Dillard
An American Childhood: A Poignant Memoir About Parents and Passion in 1950s Pittsburgh
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is harder on those who are left behind.
- Robert La Fosse
Nothing to Hide: A Dancer's Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
- Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Warmblood now a bloodborne death,
Will rob your body of it's breath
Mark your skin and seal your fate
The Underland becomes a plate
- Suzanne Collins
Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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