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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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Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows were all empty.
Nothing went in and nothing came out.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
- Ian McEwan
Amsterdam
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There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
- Stephen King
Lisey's Story
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That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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I think about dying, but i don't want to die. Not even close. In fact, my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here, in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.
- Matty Healy
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Being stagnant in a business is the death of a business.
- Pooja Agnihotri
17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
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If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
- Jim Butcher
Dead Beat
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I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.
- Libba Bray
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How can I begin to tell you how much I miss you without using those three common words that can't even start to express the magnitude nor the depth of my emotions. How can I write in my own blood while wanting to revert its color. The color of blood is similar to "I miss you". It has been raped by writers and lovers constantly, ever since Cain and Abel. I want to be able to create a new alphabet that can simply stand in front of you without bowing. I want to use new metaphors that would erupt like volcanoes between the phrases of my readers' souls. Metaphors such as your absence is similar to eating salt straight from the shaker while thirst is devouring my tongue. Metaphors such as the lack of your presence is like being straddled behind the glass of my own senses.
- Malak El Halabi
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Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death.
- Matthew Walker
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
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It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change
- Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
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Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'

What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
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You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise.
- Xenophon
The Persian Expedition
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When it reached the mirror’s edge, the blood began to drip and the synchronous echo of each drop that hit the white, porcelain sink below almost felt relaxing.
- Frank Lambert
Xyz
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You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
- Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die
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a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
- José Saramago
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
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The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
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This is what you remember of the people you love when they're gone—the ways they knew you that no one else did—even you. In that way, their passing is a death of a piece of yourself.
- Jeff Zentner
In the Wild Light
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Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.
- Otto Rank
Will Therapy/Truth and Reality
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When a joker dies, the joke remains.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Confessions of a Misfit
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And then came Mrs Fletcher, snapping her scissors, the soft scrunch of the blades through thick hanks, the gradual sensation of lightness. Now every scrap of hair that Powell had touched was gone.
- Lesley Glaister
Blasted Things
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Around, around the sun we go:
The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo.
- Archibald MacLeish
Collected Poems, 1917-1982
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As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
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Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows were all empty.
Nothing went in and nothing came out.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
- Ian McEwan
Amsterdam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
- Stephen King
Lisey's Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think about dying, but i don't want to die. Not even close. In fact, my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here, in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.
- Matty Healy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being stagnant in a business is the death of a business.
- Pooja Agnihotri
17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
- Jim Butcher
Dead Beat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.
- Libba Bray
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How can I begin to tell you how much I miss you without using those three common words that can't even start to express the magnitude nor the depth of my emotions. How can I write in my own blood while wanting to revert its color. The color of blood is similar to "I miss you". It has been raped by writers and lovers constantly, ever since Cain and Abel. I want to be able to create a new alphabet that can simply stand in front of you without bowing. I want to use new metaphors that would erupt like volcanoes between the phrases of my readers' souls. Metaphors such as your absence is similar to eating salt straight from the shaker while thirst is devouring my tongue. Metaphors such as the lack of your presence is like being straddled behind the glass of my own senses.
- Malak El Halabi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death.
- Matthew Walker
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change
- Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'

What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise.
- Xenophon
The Persian Expedition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When it reached the mirror’s edge, the blood began to drip and the synchronous echo of each drop that hit the white, porcelain sink below almost felt relaxing.
- Frank Lambert
Xyz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
- Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
- José Saramago
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is what you remember of the people you love when they're gone—the ways they knew you that no one else did—even you. In that way, their passing is a death of a piece of yourself.
- Jeff Zentner
In the Wild Light
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.
- Otto Rank
Will Therapy/Truth and Reality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a joker dies, the joke remains.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Confessions of a Misfit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then came Mrs Fletcher, snapping her scissors, the soft scrunch of the blades through thick hanks, the gradual sensation of lightness. Now every scrap of hair that Powell had touched was gone.
- Lesley Glaister
Blasted Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Around, around the sun we go:
The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo.
- Archibald MacLeish
Collected Poems, 1917-1982
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones.
Papa was an accordion!
But his bellows were all empty.
Nothing went in and nothing came out.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
- Ian McEwan
Amsterdam
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.
- Stephen King
Lisey's Story
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I think about dying, but i don't want to die. Not even close. In fact, my problem is the complete opposite. I want to live, I want to escape. I feel trapped and bored and claustrophobic. There's so much to see and so much to do but I somehow still find myself doing nothing at all. I'm still here, in this metaphorical bubble of existence and I can't quite figure out what the hell I'm doing or how to get out of it.
- Matty Healy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Being stagnant in a business is the death of a business.
- Pooja Agnihotri
17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward. It is beneath contempt.
- Jim Butcher
Dead Beat
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.
- Libba Bray
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How can I begin to tell you how much I miss you without using those three common words that can't even start to express the magnitude nor the depth of my emotions. How can I write in my own blood while wanting to revert its color. The color of blood is similar to "I miss you". It has been raped by writers and lovers constantly, ever since Cain and Abel. I want to be able to create a new alphabet that can simply stand in front of you without bowing. I want to use new metaphors that would erupt like volcanoes between the phrases of my readers' souls. Metaphors such as your absence is similar to eating salt straight from the shaker while thirst is devouring my tongue. Metaphors such as the lack of your presence is like being straddled behind the glass of my own senses.
- Malak El Halabi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sleep is the single most effective thing we can do to reset our brain and body health each day -- Mother Nature's best effort yet at contra-death.
- Matthew Walker
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change
- Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'

What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing
- Don DeLillo
White Noise
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise.
- Xenophon
The Persian Expedition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When it reached the mirror’s edge, the blood began to drip and the synchronous echo of each drop that hit the white, porcelain sink below almost felt relaxing.
- Frank Lambert
Xyz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.
- Ian Fleming
Live and Let Die
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
a man was on his way to the gallows when he met another, who asked him: where are you going, my friend? and the condemned man replied: i'm not going anywhere. they're taking me by force.
- José Saramago
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger.
- Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This is what you remember of the people you love when they're gone—the ways they knew you that no one else did—even you. In that way, their passing is a death of a piece of yourself.
- Jeff Zentner
In the Wild Light
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.
- Otto Rank
Will Therapy/Truth and Reality
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a joker dies, the joke remains.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The Confessions of a Misfit
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then came Mrs Fletcher, snapping her scissors, the soft scrunch of the blades through thick hanks, the gradual sensation of lightness. Now every scrap of hair that Powell had touched was gone.
- Lesley Glaister
Blasted Things
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Around, around the sun we go:
The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo.
- Archibald MacLeish
Collected Poems, 1917-1982
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast of Champions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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