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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 planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
- Margaret Atwood
Lady Oracle
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My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way
- Ali Shariati
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The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter
- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Harlequin
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Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
- Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
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And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.
- Marie Lu
Wildcard
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I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.
- Loretta Ellsworth
In a Heartbeat
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You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people.

And now he was gone.
- Rachel Vincent
Alpha
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Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.
- Rachel Vincent
Prey
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The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.
- Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
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Death's an old story, but new for each person.
- Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Children: Introduction by John Bayley
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It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
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People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.
- Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
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Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
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What do you want to do with your life, then?” is often the question I'm asked.

To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.

Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference.
- Nenia Campbell
Tantalized
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Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
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This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
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Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
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This is what youth must figure out:
Girls, love, and living.
The having, the not having,
The spending and giving,
And the meloncholy time of not knowing.

This is what age must learn about:
The ABC of dying.
The going, yet not going,
The loving and leaving,
And the unbearable knowing and knowing
- EB White
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Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
- Lauren DeStefano
Fever
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The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
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I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
- Margaret Atwood
Lady Oracle
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My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way
- Ali Shariati
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The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter
- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Harlequin
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Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
- Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
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And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.
- Marie Lu
Wildcard
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I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.
- Loretta Ellsworth
In a Heartbeat
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You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people.

And now he was gone.
- Rachel Vincent
Alpha
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Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.
- Rachel Vincent
Prey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.
- Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
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Death's an old story, but new for each person.
- Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Children: Introduction by John Bayley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.
- Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What do you want to do with your life, then?” is often the question I'm asked.

To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.

Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference.
- Nenia Campbell
Tantalized
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is what youth must figure out:
Girls, love, and living.
The having, the not having,
The spending and giving,
And the meloncholy time of not knowing.

This is what age must learn about:
The ABC of dying.
The going, yet not going,
The loving and leaving,
And the unbearable knowing and knowing
- EB White
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
- Lauren DeStefano
Fever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.
- Margaret Atwood
Lady Oracle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way
- Ali Shariati
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter
- Laurell K. Hamilton
The Harlequin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.
- Ruta Sepetys
Salt to the Sea
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And that’s when I realize that, at the end, we’d all wish for the same thing. Just a little more time.
- Marie Lu
Wildcard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.
- Loretta Ellsworth
In a Heartbeat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people.

And now he was gone.
- Rachel Vincent
Alpha
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.
- Rachel Vincent
Prey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.
- Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death's an old story, but new for each person.
- Ivan Turgenev
Fathers and Children: Introduction by John Bayley
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Tennessee Williams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.
- Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What do you want to do with your life, then?” is often the question I'm asked.

To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.

Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference.
- Nenia Campbell
Tantalized
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
- Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is what youth must figure out:
Girls, love, and living.
The having, the not having,
The spending and giving,
And the meloncholy time of not knowing.

This is what age must learn about:
The ABC of dying.
The going, yet not going,
The loving and leaving,
And the unbearable knowing and knowing
- EB White
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.
- Lauren DeStefano
Fever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.
- Daniel Keyes
Flowers for Algernon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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