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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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Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
- Richard Bach
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,
Look not left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
There’s nothing but the night.
- A.E. Housman
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… Some of my friends will never return, for they died on this the most extraordinary trek in history – a trek that caused untold suffering to thousands of people of many nationalities … from ‘Out of the Burma Night’ by Captain Gribble
- Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
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Where does the love go when someone dies? Their last breath disappears into the atmosphere, their body gets buried in the ground, but where does the love go? If love is real, it must go somewhere.
- Alice Feeney
Daisy Darker
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I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
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REQUIEM

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Selected Poems
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She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
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The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity
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Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?
- Sophocles
Electra
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Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?”

"He will not kill me,” Sage said brusquely, the wild tone back in his voice. “He may even find it as amusant as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow.
- L.J. Smith
Midnight
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Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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Tragic deaths aren't avoidable. That's what Ezra said outside Sam's wake, and even though--to use Foster's phrasing--I didn't know anything about anything, I felt in this moment that Ezra was wrong. What often makes something tragic is that it can be avoided.
- Emma Mills
First & Then
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... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
- Amin Maalouf
Orígenes
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Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey one's road and to fight with the air. Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner.
- H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
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I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.
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White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.
- Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
- Dean Koontz
The Husband
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But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister or you. Nothing is the same forever. Maybe all the people on Earth are God's little pet fish. God lives such a long time that people's lives probably seem really short to him. He watches them swim for a little while, and then they stop swimming.
- Suzanne LaFleur
Love, Aubrey
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I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.
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Give me liberty or give me death."

[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]
- Patrick Henry
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
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Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
- Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn
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Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
- George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
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Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder...
- Cornelia Funke
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink,      
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;      
’T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses
Instead of speech, may form a lasting link      
Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces
Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this,
Survives himself, his tomb, and all that’s his.
- George Gordon Byron
Don Juan
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Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
- Richard Bach
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,
Look not left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
There’s nothing but the night.
- A.E. Housman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
… Some of my friends will never return, for they died on this the most extraordinary trek in history – a trek that caused untold suffering to thousands of people of many nationalities … from ‘Out of the Burma Night’ by Captain Gribble
- Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Where does the love go when someone dies? Their last breath disappears into the atmosphere, their body gets buried in the ground, but where does the love go? If love is real, it must go somewhere.
- Alice Feeney
Daisy Darker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
REQUIEM

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Selected Poems
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She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
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The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?
- Sophocles
Electra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?”

"He will not kill me,” Sage said brusquely, the wild tone back in his voice. “He may even find it as amusant as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow.
- L.J. Smith
Midnight
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Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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Tragic deaths aren't avoidable. That's what Ezra said outside Sam's wake, and even though--to use Foster's phrasing--I didn't know anything about anything, I felt in this moment that Ezra was wrong. What often makes something tragic is that it can be avoided.
- Emma Mills
First & Then
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
- Amin Maalouf
Orígenes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey one's road and to fight with the air. Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner.
- H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.
- Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
- Dean Koontz
The Husband
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister or you. Nothing is the same forever. Maybe all the people on Earth are God's little pet fish. God lives such a long time that people's lives probably seem really short to him. He watches them swim for a little while, and then they stop swimming.
- Suzanne LaFleur
Love, Aubrey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Give me liberty or give me death."

[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]
- Patrick Henry
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
- Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
- George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder...
- Cornelia Funke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,      
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;      
’T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses
Instead of speech, may form a lasting link      
Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces
Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this,
Survives himself, his tomb, and all that’s his.
- George Gordon Byron
Don Juan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remember where you came from, where you’re going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place. You're going to die a horrible death, remember. It's all good training, and you'll enjoy it more if you keep the facts in mind. Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less-advanced life-forms, and they'll call you crazy.
- Richard Bach
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, lift your pack
And leave your friends and go.
O never fear, lads, naught’s to dread,
Look not left nor right:
In all the endless road you tread
There’s nothing but the night.
- A.E. Housman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
… Some of my friends will never return, for they died on this the most extraordinary trek in history – a trek that caused untold suffering to thousands of people of many nationalities … from ‘Out of the Burma Night’ by Captain Gribble
- Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Where does the love go when someone dies? Their last breath disappears into the atmosphere, their body gets buried in the ground, but where does the love go? If love is real, it must go somewhere.
- Alice Feeney
Daisy Darker
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
REQUIEM

Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie:
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.

This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he long'd to be;
Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she exhaled, and then she had no more needs, no more reason; she was released from her body, and being released, she continued her journey elsewhere, high in the firmament where soul material gathers and plays out all the dreams and joys of which we temporal beings can barely conceive, all the things that are beyond our comprehension, but even so, are not beyond our attainment if we choose to attain them, and believe that we truly can.
- Garth Stein
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth,--
The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out in a grief with no cure, no time-limit, no measure. It is a knot no one can untie. Why are you so in love with things unbearable?
- Sophocles
Electra
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?”

"He will not kill me,” Sage said brusquely, the wild tone back in his voice. “He may even find it as amusant as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow.
- L.J. Smith
Midnight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks he is everything to everyone. We must not judge nature by ourselves, but by its own standards.
- Blaise Pascal
Pensées
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tragic deaths aren't avoidable. That's what Ezra said outside Sam's wake, and even though--to use Foster's phrasing--I didn't know anything about anything, I felt in this moment that Ezra was wrong. What often makes something tragic is that it can be avoided.
- Emma Mills
First & Then
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.
- Amin Maalouf
Orígenes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Listen! What is life? It is a feather, it is the seed of the grass, blown hither and thither, sometimes multiplying itself and dying in the act, sometimes carried away into the heavens. But if that seed be good and heavy it may perchance travel a little way on the road it wills. It is well to try and journey one's road and to fight with the air. Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner.
- H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
White man trying to kill you slow every day, and sometimes trying to kill you fast. Why make it easy for him? That was one kind of work you could say no to.
- Colson Whitehead
The Underground Railroad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
- Dean Koontz
The Husband
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister or you. Nothing is the same forever. Maybe all the people on Earth are God's little pet fish. God lives such a long time that people's lives probably seem really short to him. He watches them swim for a little while, and then they stop swimming.
- Suzanne LaFleur
Love, Aubrey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Give me liberty or give me death."

[From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775 to the Virginia House of Burgesses; as first published in print in 1817 in William Wirt's Life and Character of Patrick Henry.]
- Patrick Henry
Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you want to know something about tyrants? When faced with death, they weep and they beg just like the rest of us.
- Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why won't they let me be? I just need to rest, that's all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.
- George R.R. Martin
A Storm of Swords
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Killing is easy," said Mo, "Dying is harder...
- Cornelia Funke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But words are things, and a small drop of ink,      
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think;      
’T is strange, the shortest letter which man uses
Instead of speech, may form a lasting link      
Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces
Frail man, when paper — even a rag like this,
Survives himself, his tomb, and all that’s his.
- George Gordon Byron
Don Juan
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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