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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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I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
- Rosamund Lupton
Sister
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Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an employee had spent three months devising a supermarket promotion based on an offer of free stickers of cartoon characters called the Fimbles. Why had the grown-ups so churlishly abdicated their responsibilities? Were there not more important ambitions to be met before Death showed himself on the horizon in his hooded black cloak, his scythe slung over his shoulder?
- Alain de Botton
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Comfort took a distant second to fashion where footwear was concerned. Unless of course, one was fleeing!
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
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No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.
- Isaac Asimov
Robots and Empire
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When we choose to bring the end closer, we create a new beginning
- Iain Reid
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.
- Ravi Zacharias
Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
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...Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts are matching 'em up now. I guess he wishes he'd stayed and talked to us.
- Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man
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That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.
- Lev Grossman
The Magician King
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Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
- C.S. Lewis
Letters to Children
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Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.
- Julio Cortázar
Historias de cronopios y de famas
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I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After
- Samantha Sotto
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And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me?
Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
- Clarice Lispector
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From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?
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Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
- Frank Beddor
Seeing Redd
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The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.
- Anthony T. Kronman
Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
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Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.

And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
- Fred E. Weatherly
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Gods whose dominion is over the Souls, Shades without sound, Void, and you, Burning River, and you, broad Spaces voiceless beneath the Night, may I remain sinless in telling what has been told to me, and, by your divine assent, reveal truth sunk in depths of earth and gloom.
- Virgil
The Aeneid
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We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go.
- C Pam Zhang
Land of Milk and Honey
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Never shy away from telling those you love
how you feel about them.You will never know
if you will have another chance...
- Ahmad Ardalan
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The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
- Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
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Who wanted to be smiled at by the girl that trailed shadows like pets, conjured snakes and waited for Death, her bridegroom, to steal her from these walls?
- Roshani Chokshi
The Star-Touched Queen
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There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.'
(Source : RHLSTP #18 - @87min32s)
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I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
- Rosamund Lupton
Sister
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an employee had spent three months devising a supermarket promotion based on an offer of free stickers of cartoon characters called the Fimbles. Why had the grown-ups so churlishly abdicated their responsibilities? Were there not more important ambitions to be met before Death showed himself on the horizon in his hooded black cloak, his scythe slung over his shoulder?
- Alain de Botton
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Comfort took a distant second to fashion where footwear was concerned. Unless of course, one was fleeing!
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.
- Isaac Asimov
Robots and Empire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we choose to bring the end closer, we create a new beginning
- Iain Reid
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.
- Ravi Zacharias
Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts are matching 'em up now. I guess he wishes he'd stayed and talked to us.
- Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.
- Lev Grossman
The Magician King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
- C.S. Lewis
Letters to Children
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.
- Julio Cortázar
Historias de cronopios y de famas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After
- Samantha Sotto
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me?
Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
- Clarice Lispector
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
- Frank Beddor
Seeing Redd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.
- Anthony T. Kronman
Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.

And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
- Fred E. Weatherly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Gods whose dominion is over the Souls, Shades without sound, Void, and you, Burning River, and you, broad Spaces voiceless beneath the Night, may I remain sinless in telling what has been told to me, and, by your divine assent, reveal truth sunk in depths of earth and gloom.
- Virgil
The Aeneid
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go.
- C Pam Zhang
Land of Milk and Honey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never shy away from telling those you love
how you feel about them.You will never know
if you will have another chance...
- Ahmad Ardalan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
- Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who wanted to be smiled at by the girl that trailed shadows like pets, conjured snakes and waited for Death, her bridegroom, to steal her from these walls?
- Roshani Chokshi
The Star-Touched Queen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.'
(Source : RHLSTP #18 - @87min32s)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I remembered back to leo's burial and holding your hand. I was eleven and you were six, your hand soft and small in mine. As the vicar said 'in sure and certain hope of the resurrection of eternal life' you turned to me, 'I don't want sure and certain hope I want sure and certain Bee.
- Rosamund Lupton
Sister
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful contribution to mankind was the frivolous way in which it went about marketing its products. Grief was the only rational response to the news that an employee had spent three months devising a supermarket promotion based on an offer of free stickers of cartoon characters called the Fimbles. Why had the grown-ups so churlishly abdicated their responsibilities? Were there not more important ambitions to be met before Death showed himself on the horizon in his hooded black cloak, his scythe slung over his shoulder?
- Alain de Botton
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Comfort took a distant second to fashion where footwear was concerned. Unless of course, one was fleeing!
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.
- Isaac Asimov
Robots and Empire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we choose to bring the end closer, we create a new beginning
- Iain Reid
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.
- Ravi Zacharias
Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
...Our friend Nunheim was filled full of .32s just about an hour after he copped the sneak on us - deader'n hell. The pills look like they come from the same gun that cut down the Wolf dame. The experts are matching 'em up now. I guess he wishes he'd stayed and talked to us.
- Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.
- Lev Grossman
The Magician King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.
- C.S. Lewis
Letters to Children
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa.
- Julio Cortázar
Historias de cronopios y de famas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
- Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is never swift... No matter how those left behind would like to comfort themselves with the thought. -Before Ever After
- Samantha Sotto
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me?
Don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
- Clarice Lispector
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Only the previous day, Arch had found him in a spirit-dance corral, blistering the creatures to the point of death, such was his need to touch and destroy.
- Frank Beddor
Seeing Redd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The question of how to spend my life, of what my life is for, is a question posed only to me, and I can no more delegate the responsibility for answering it than I can delegate the task of dying.
- Anthony T. Kronman
Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer's in the meadow
Or when the valley's hushed and white with snow
'Tis I'll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You'll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an "Ave" there for me.

And I shall hear, tho' soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you'll not fail to tell me that you love me
I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.

I'll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
- Fred E. Weatherly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Gods whose dominion is over the Souls, Shades without sound, Void, and you, Burning River, and you, broad Spaces voiceless beneath the Night, may I remain sinless in telling what has been told to me, and, by your divine assent, reveal truth sunk in depths of earth and gloom.
- Virgil
The Aeneid
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go.
- C Pam Zhang
Land of Milk and Honey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Never shy away from telling those you love
how you feel about them.You will never know
if you will have another chance...
- Ahmad Ardalan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none, I think, do there embrace.
- Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who wanted to be smiled at by the girl that trailed shadows like pets, conjured snakes and waited for Death, her bridegroom, to steal her from these walls?
- Roshani Chokshi
The Star-Touched Queen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.'
(Source : RHLSTP #18 - @87min32s)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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