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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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.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.
He will have nothing to live for.
- James Edwin Gunn
The Immortals
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And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.
- Alice Walker
The Color Purple
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
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You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face
- Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice
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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
- Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters
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I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
- Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
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Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I have a call.
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Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.
- Roberto Bolano
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The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
- Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
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He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
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But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
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We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
- Terry Pratchett
Night Watch
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In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides
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Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
- Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys
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He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
- W. H. Auden
Collected Poems
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People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
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Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.
- Gayle Forman
If I Stay
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I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleamings of an empty heart.

The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb,
I live in lonely desolation
And wonder when my end will come.

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By tardy winter's whistling chill,
A single leaf which has outlasted
Its season will be trembling still.
- Alexander Pushkin
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You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
- Hans Christian Andersen
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Premature Burial
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.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.
He will have nothing to live for.
- James Edwin Gunn
The Immortals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.
- Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face
- Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
- Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
- Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I have a call.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.
- Roberto Bolano
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
- Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
- Terry Pratchett
Night Watch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
- Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
- W. H. Auden
Collected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.
- Gayle Forman
If I Stay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleamings of an empty heart.

The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb,
I live in lonely desolation
And wonder when my end will come.

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By tardy winter's whistling chill,
A single leaf which has outlasted
Its season will be trembling still.
- Alexander Pushkin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Premature Burial
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If they succeed, it will not matter if Man becomes immortal.
He will have nothing to live for.
- James Edwin Gunn
The Immortals
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed into something different that I'll have to speak to in a different way, but you not dead to me Nettie. And never will you be.
- Alice Walker
The Color Purple
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
- Sarah Dessen
The Truth About Forever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face
- Ian Fleming
You Only Live Twice
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
- Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.
- Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I have a call.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.
- Roberto Bolano
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
- Arthur Golden
Memoirs of a Geisha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.
- Sarah J. Maas
Crown of Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.
- Terry Pratchett
Night Watch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.
- Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
- W. H. Auden
Collected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
- Jandy Nelson
I'll Give You the Sun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.
- Gayle Forman
If I Stay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have outlasted all desire,
My dreams and I have grown apart;
My grief alone is left entire,
The gleamings of an empty heart.

The storms of ruthless dispensation
Have struck my flowery garland numb,
I live in lonely desolation
And wonder when my end will come.

Thus on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By tardy winter's whistling chill,
A single leaf which has outlasted
Its season will be trembling still.
- Alexander Pushkin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
- Hans Christian Andersen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Premature Burial
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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