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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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Better a live dog than a dead lion.
- Paul Hoffman
The Left Hand of God
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Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.
- Iwan Goll
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They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin'..." He laughed. "I reckon I ain't very forgivin', son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God's will jest has to do with sufferin' and dyin', they done missed the whole point.
- Olive Ann Burns
Cold Sassy Tree
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This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too... This happens everyday. Everyday this happens and scarcely anybody cares.
- Daniel Handler
Adverbs
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Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.
- Peter Grimwade
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
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Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
- Muriel Spark
Memento Mori
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
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Our planet is poorly equipped for delight.
One must snatch gladness from the days that are.
In this life
it's not difficult to die.
To make life
is more difficult by far.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
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They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a holy temple. - I get a vision of myself and the two little boys hung up in a great endless universe with nothing overhead and nothing under bbut the Infinite Nothingness, the Enormousness of it, the dead without number in all directions of existence whether inward into the atom-worlds of your own body or outward to the universe which may only be one atom in an infinity of atom-worlds and each atom-world only a figure of speech - inward, outward, up and down, nothing but emptiness and divine majesty and silence for the two little boys and me.
- Jack Kerouac
Lonesome Traveler
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Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,” dropping the keys in Ennis’s hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream.
- Annie Proulx
Brokeback Mountain
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For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.
- Robert A. Monroe
Far Journeys
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Life is a temporary condition, Henry. And it's uncertain. That's why you have to seize chances when you find them. Pursue what you want. Take risks. Live, love...all of it. Every last one of us is going to die, but if we don't live as we truly want, if we're not with the one we want to be with, we're dead already.
- Martha Brockenbrough
The Game of Love and Death
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I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, "Death, where is thy sting?" with "It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.
- Maya Angelou
Letter to My Daughter
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To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows.
- Robert Liparulo
Gatekeepers
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So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
- Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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And let me ask you this: the dead,
where aren't they?
- Franz Wright
God's Silence
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And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.
- Marilyn French
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Love don't die with the earthly body, son. It's a purely ridiculous notion.
- Stephen King
The Institute
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Let’s add up what we know. He gravitated toward all things occult. He wanted to be a member of a tight clan with strict rules and secret codes. He craved highly organized social structures, with leaders and followers clearly distinguished.  A group with little appeal to the masses. A group with few members. We know that these Nordic runes fascinated him. And apparently he held that fascination for a long time, given that he added the ‘Hagalaz’ to the message intended for Marshal Pack.
- John M Vermillion
Packfire
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Too easy to lose the way.
Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you
are and where you should be.
Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.
- Diana Rowland
Mark of the Demon
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But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?
'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.
- Émile Zola
The Dream
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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
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The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the earth and sky together into one swaying blur.
The snow fell on Bach's shoulders; it was as though flakes of silence were falling on the still Volga, on the dead city, on the skeletons of horses. It was snowing everywhere, on earth and on the stars; the whole universe was full of snow. Everything was disappearing beneath it: guns, the bodies of the dead, filthy dressings, rubble, scraps of twisted iron.
This soft, white snow settling over the carnage of the city was time itself; the present was turning into the past, and there was no future.
- Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
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Ich werde stehen und warten.
Ich werde müde werden.
Ich werde nicht einschlafen.
Ich werde sterben.
- Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
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Better a live dog than a dead lion.
- Paul Hoffman
The Left Hand of God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.
- Iwan Goll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin'..." He laughed. "I reckon I ain't very forgivin', son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God's will jest has to do with sufferin' and dyin', they done missed the whole point.
- Olive Ann Burns
Cold Sassy Tree
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too... This happens everyday. Everyday this happens and scarcely anybody cares.
- Daniel Handler
Adverbs
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Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.
- Peter Grimwade
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
- Muriel Spark
Memento Mori
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our planet is poorly equipped for delight.
One must snatch gladness from the days that are.
In this life
it's not difficult to die.
To make life
is more difficult by far.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a holy temple. - I get a vision of myself and the two little boys hung up in a great endless universe with nothing overhead and nothing under bbut the Infinite Nothingness, the Enormousness of it, the dead without number in all directions of existence whether inward into the atom-worlds of your own body or outward to the universe which may only be one atom in an infinity of atom-worlds and each atom-world only a figure of speech - inward, outward, up and down, nothing but emptiness and divine majesty and silence for the two little boys and me.
- Jack Kerouac
Lonesome Traveler
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Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,” dropping the keys in Ennis’s hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream.
- Annie Proulx
Brokeback Mountain
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For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.
- Robert A. Monroe
Far Journeys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a temporary condition, Henry. And it's uncertain. That's why you have to seize chances when you find them. Pursue what you want. Take risks. Live, love...all of it. Every last one of us is going to die, but if we don't live as we truly want, if we're not with the one we want to be with, we're dead already.
- Martha Brockenbrough
The Game of Love and Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, "Death, where is thy sting?" with "It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.
- Maya Angelou
Letter to My Daughter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows.
- Robert Liparulo
Gatekeepers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
- Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And let me ask you this: the dead,
where aren't they?
- Franz Wright
God's Silence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.
- Marilyn French
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love don't die with the earthly body, son. It's a purely ridiculous notion.
- Stephen King
The Institute
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let’s add up what we know. He gravitated toward all things occult. He wanted to be a member of a tight clan with strict rules and secret codes. He craved highly organized social structures, with leaders and followers clearly distinguished.  A group with little appeal to the masses. A group with few members. We know that these Nordic runes fascinated him. And apparently he held that fascination for a long time, given that he added the ‘Hagalaz’ to the message intended for Marshal Pack.
- John M Vermillion
Packfire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Too easy to lose the way.
Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you
are and where you should be.
Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.
- Diana Rowland
Mark of the Demon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?
'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.
- Émile Zola
The Dream
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the earth and sky together into one swaying blur.
The snow fell on Bach's shoulders; it was as though flakes of silence were falling on the still Volga, on the dead city, on the skeletons of horses. It was snowing everywhere, on earth and on the stars; the whole universe was full of snow. Everything was disappearing beneath it: guns, the bodies of the dead, filthy dressings, rubble, scraps of twisted iron.
This soft, white snow settling over the carnage of the city was time itself; the present was turning into the past, and there was no future.
- Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ich werde stehen und warten.
Ich werde müde werden.
Ich werde nicht einschlafen.
Ich werde sterben.
- Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Better a live dog than a dead lion.
- Paul Hoffman
The Left Hand of God
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation.
- Iwan Goll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They's a heap more to God's will than death, disapoint-ment, and like thet. Hit's God's will for us to be good and do good, love one another, be forgivin'..." He laughed. "I reckon I ain't very forgivin', son. I can forgive a fool, but I ain't inner-rested in coddlin' hypocrites. Well anyhow, folks who think God's will jest has to do with sufferin' and dyin', they done missed the whole point.
- Olive Ann Burns
Cold Sassy Tree
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is how it is in life and love. In life and love we are with people for a while, and then we join other people, people we have not met, and we walk with them, and we leave behind all the things we used to be. Sometimes we leave people behind too... This happens everyday. Everyday this happens and scarcely anybody cares.
- Daniel Handler
Adverbs
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.
- Peter Grimwade
Doctor Who: Mawdryn Undead
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.
- Muriel Spark
Memento Mori
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.
- Yann Martel
Life of Pi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our planet is poorly equipped for delight.
One must snatch gladness from the days that are.
In this life
it's not difficult to die.
To make life
is more difficult by far.
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a holy temple. - I get a vision of myself and the two little boys hung up in a great endless universe with nothing overhead and nothing under bbut the Infinite Nothingness, the Enormousness of it, the dead without number in all directions of existence whether inward into the atom-worlds of your own body or outward to the universe which may only be one atom in an infinity of atom-worlds and each atom-world only a figure of speech - inward, outward, up and down, nothing but emptiness and divine majesty and silence for the two little boys and me.
- Jack Kerouac
Lonesome Traveler
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,” dropping the keys in Ennis’s hand. He might have to stay with his married daughter until he picks up another job, yet he is suffused with a sense of pleasure because Jack Twist was in his dream.
- Annie Proulx
Brokeback Mountain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For those who would die, there is life. For those who would dream, there is reality. For those who would hope, there is knowledge. For those who would grow, there is eternity.
- Robert A. Monroe
Far Journeys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is a temporary condition, Henry. And it's uncertain. That's why you have to seize chances when you find them. Pursue what you want. Take risks. Live, love...all of it. Every last one of us is going to die, but if we don't live as we truly want, if we're not with the one we want to be with, we're dead already.
- Martha Brockenbrough
The Game of Love and Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, "Death, where is thy sting?" with "It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.
- Maya Angelou
Letter to My Daughter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To you, death does not simply end life. It steals away the sunsets you'll never see, the children you'll never hold, the wife you'll never love. It's frightening to almost lose your future, and it's heartbreaking to witness death snuff out other people's tomorrows.
- Robert Liparulo
Gatekeepers
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.
- Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And let me ask you this: the dead,
where aren't they?
- Franz Wright
God's Silence
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And there are so much easier ways to destroy a woman. You don't have to rape her or kill her; you don't even have to beat her. You can just marry her. You don't even have to do that. You can just let her work in your office for thirty-five dollars a week.
- Marilyn French
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love don't die with the earthly body, son. It's a purely ridiculous notion.
- Stephen King
The Institute
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Let’s add up what we know. He gravitated toward all things occult. He wanted to be a member of a tight clan with strict rules and secret codes. He craved highly organized social structures, with leaders and followers clearly distinguished.  A group with little appeal to the masses. A group with few members. We know that these Nordic runes fascinated him. And apparently he held that fascination for a long time, given that he added the ‘Hagalaz’ to the message intended for Marshal Pack.
- John M Vermillion
Packfire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Too easy to lose the way.
Too hard to keep from unraveling when there’s nothing to remind you of who you
are and where you should be.
Another eternity passes in the flick of an eyelash.
- Diana Rowland
Mark of the Demon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it...Do you really want her to die?
'Yes, I'd rather she died than have a bad life.
- Émile Zola
The Dream
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The snow filled the air with a soft grey-blue mist, softening the wind and gunfire, bringing the earth and sky together into one swaying blur.
The snow fell on Bach's shoulders; it was as though flakes of silence were falling on the still Volga, on the dead city, on the skeletons of horses. It was snowing everywhere, on earth and on the stars; the whole universe was full of snow. Everything was disappearing beneath it: guns, the bodies of the dead, filthy dressings, rubble, scraps of twisted iron.
This soft, white snow settling over the carnage of the city was time itself; the present was turning into the past, and there was no future.
- Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ich werde stehen und warten.
Ich werde müde werden.
Ich werde nicht einschlafen.
Ich werde sterben.
- Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha
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