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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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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?
- Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
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Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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Harry Potter," he said very softly. His voice might have been part of the spitting fire. "The Boy Who Lived."

None of the Death Eaters moved. They were waiting. Everything was waiting. Hagrid was struggling, and Bellatrix was panting, and Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his--

Voldemort had raised his wand. His head was still tilted to one side, like a curious child, wondering what would happen if he proceeded. Harry looked back into the red eyes, and wanted it to happen now, quickly, while he could still stand, before he lost control, before he betrayed fear--

He saw the mouth move and a flash of green light, and everything was gone.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.
- Yohji Yamamoto
My Dear Bomb
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The thin line between life and death is still under construction.
- Santosh Kalwar
Adventus
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Watch birth and death:
The lotus has already
Opened its flower.
- Natsume Soseki
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I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. And why weep for this? No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded; his heart will be undaunted; his hope will be sure; his faith steadfast. His own words are a pledge of this: “My Master,” he says, “has forewarned me. Daily he announces more distinctly, ‘Surely I come quickly!’ and hourly I more eagerly respond, ‘Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!
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Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.
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I love death because life hates me.
- Luffina Lourduraj
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The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.
- Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms
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Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
- Heinrich Heine
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I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.
- Heather Day Gilbert
God's Daughter
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Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.
- Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
- Robin Hobb
Renegade's Magic
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I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. I’d had the good fortune of seeing several of them in my time.
- Alan Bradley
A Red Herring Without Mustard
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And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
- Archibald MacLeish
Collected Poems, 1917-1982
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You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.
- Josephine Humphreys
Dreams of Sleep
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There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.
- Andrew Davidson
The Gargoyle
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All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's family in the eye and telling them to say their last goodbyes. That it meant staring down the permanence of death over and over again, until it stopped feeling like something to be prevented at all costs and instead became something to be occasionally embraced.
- Shirlene Obuobi
On Rotation
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Deyr fé,
deyja frændr,
deyr sjálfr ið sama;
ek veit einn,
að aldri deyr:
dómr of dauðan hvern.
- Hávamál - The sayings of the high one
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He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred persons to help them go, so she knew death well: the release of breath, the rattle, the calm. Her parents went the same way, one after the other. And she missed them. She had resigned herself a long time ago to missing all the people who left her.
- Julia Phillips
Disappearing Earth
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Letty allowed her to ramble on while she looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured.
- Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?
- Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
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Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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Harry Potter," he said very softly. His voice might have been part of the spitting fire. "The Boy Who Lived."

None of the Death Eaters moved. They were waiting. Everything was waiting. Hagrid was struggling, and Bellatrix was panting, and Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his--

Voldemort had raised his wand. His head was still tilted to one side, like a curious child, wondering what would happen if he proceeded. Harry looked back into the red eyes, and wanted it to happen now, quickly, while he could still stand, before he lost control, before he betrayed fear--

He saw the mouth move and a flash of green light, and everything was gone.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.
- Yohji Yamamoto
My Dear Bomb
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The thin line between life and death is still under construction.
- Santosh Kalwar
Adventus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Watch birth and death:
The lotus has already
Opened its flower.
- Natsume Soseki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. And why weep for this? No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded; his heart will be undaunted; his hope will be sure; his faith steadfast. His own words are a pledge of this: “My Master,” he says, “has forewarned me. Daily he announces more distinctly, ‘Surely I come quickly!’ and hourly I more eagerly respond, ‘Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love death because life hates me.
- Luffina Lourduraj
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.
- Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
- Heinrich Heine
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I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.
- Heather Day Gilbert
God's Daughter
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Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.
- Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
- Robin Hobb
Renegade's Magic
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I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. I’d had the good fortune of seeing several of them in my time.
- Alan Bradley
A Red Herring Without Mustard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
- Archibald MacLeish
Collected Poems, 1917-1982
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.
- Josephine Humphreys
Dreams of Sleep
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There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.
- Andrew Davidson
The Gargoyle
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All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's family in the eye and telling them to say their last goodbyes. That it meant staring down the permanence of death over and over again, until it stopped feeling like something to be prevented at all costs and instead became something to be occasionally embraced.
- Shirlene Obuobi
On Rotation
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Deyr fé,
deyja frændr,
deyr sjálfr ið sama;
ek veit einn,
að aldri deyr:
dómr of dauðan hvern.
- Hávamál - The sayings of the high one
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He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred persons to help them go, so she knew death well: the release of breath, the rattle, the calm. Her parents went the same way, one after the other. And she missed them. She had resigned herself a long time ago to missing all the people who left her.
- Julia Phillips
Disappearing Earth
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Letty allowed her to ramble on while she looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured.
- Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn
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For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and melt into the sun?
- Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh God, Alaska, I love you. I love you," and the Colonel whispered, "I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did," and I said, "No. Not past tense." She wasn't even a person anymore, just flesh rotting, but I loved her present tense.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Harry Potter," he said very softly. His voice might have been part of the spitting fire. "The Boy Who Lived."

None of the Death Eaters moved. They were waiting. Everything was waiting. Hagrid was struggling, and Bellatrix was panting, and Harry thought inexplicably of Ginny, and her blazing look, and the feel of her lips on his--

Voldemort had raised his wand. His head was still tilted to one side, like a curious child, wondering what would happen if he proceeded. Harry looked back into the red eyes, and wanted it to happen now, quickly, while he could still stand, before he lost control, before he betrayed fear--

He saw the mouth move and a flash of green light, and everything was gone.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.
- Yohji Yamamoto
My Dear Bomb
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The thin line between life and death is still under construction.
- Santosh Kalwar
Adventus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Watch birth and death:
The lotus has already
Opened its flower.
- Natsume Soseki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know that a stranger's hand will write to me next, to say that the good and faithful servant has been called at length into the joy of his Lord. And why weep for this? No fear of death will darken St. John's last hour: his mind will be unclouded; his heart will be undaunted; his hope will be sure; his faith steadfast. His own words are a pledge of this: “My Master,” he says, “has forewarned me. Daily he announces more distinctly, ‘Surely I come quickly!’ and hourly I more eagerly respond, ‘Amen; even so come, Lord Jesus!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love death because life hates me.
- Luffina Lourduraj
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The air smelled of a limited life expectancy.
- Terry Pratchett
Men at Arms
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people
- Heinrich Heine
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.
- Heather Day Gilbert
God's Daughter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.
- Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.
- Robin Hobb
Renegade's Magic
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. I’d had the good fortune of seeing several of them in my time.
- Alan Bradley
A Red Herring Without Mustard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And here face down beneath the sun
And here upon earth's noonward height
To feel the always coming on
The always rising of the night
- Archibald MacLeish
Collected Poems, 1917-1982
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can't drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.
- Josephine Humphreys
Dreams of Sleep
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It's a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life... the silk settles around you as if it has been drifting towards the earth forever and has finally found it's target. The flag of defeat has been mercifully dropped and, in this action, the loss is not so bad. Defeat itself is defeated by the embrace of defeat, and death is swallowed up in victory.
- Andrew Davidson
The Gargoyle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All this time, I'd assumed that being a doctor meant performing miracles. Fixing bodies. Saving lives. I had hardly considered the flip side of that coin: that it also meant looking a patient's family in the eye and telling them to say their last goodbyes. That it meant staring down the permanence of death over and over again, until it stopped feeling like something to be prevented at all costs and instead became something to be occasionally embraced.
- Shirlene Obuobi
On Rotation
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Deyr fé,
deyja frændr,
deyr sjálfr ið sama;
ek veit einn,
að aldri deyr:
dómr of dauðan hvern.
- Hávamál - The sayings of the high one
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred persons to help them go, so she knew death well: the release of breath, the rattle, the calm. Her parents went the same way, one after the other. And she missed them. She had resigned herself a long time ago to missing all the people who left her.
- Julia Phillips
Disappearing Earth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Letty allowed her to ramble on while she looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured.
- Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn
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