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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 not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of suffering
- Raheem Kirlew
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You’re better looking than me. You’re more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than me. Your family is nicer than mine. Your religion is better than mine. You’ve seen more beaches than me. You’ve been to more cities than me. Your automobile is nicer than mine. Your significant other is better looking than mine. Your candidate won. Your home team won. You’re number one. But life is a tie. We all die.
- Jason Daniel Chaplin
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My story will be over soon. But it's not something to be sad about. As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.
- Hiro Arikawa
Nana Du Ký
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If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
- Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.
- Meghan O'Rourke
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When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.
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John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'
Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
- Christopher Pike
Phantom
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In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?
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No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
- Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion
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Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.

Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.

Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.
- Chris Boucher
Doctor Who: Last Man Running
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Funerals often make us want sex—it’s one in the eye for death.
- Thomas Harris
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I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
- Kathryn Stockett
The Help
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The first time is always the hardest
- Sarwat Chadda
Dark Goddess
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Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stock of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him crying: 'Stetson!
You, who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,
Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!
You! hypocrite lecteur!-mon semblable,-mon frere!
- T.S. Eliot
Selected Poems
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Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.
- Jonathan Rosen
Eve's Apple
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Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.
- Rebecca Rasmussen
The Bird Sisters
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Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
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And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
- Anita Shreve
The Pilot's Wife
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If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.
- Robert Fanney
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[...] But then,
What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?
All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff
Until hard edges break into out path.
Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief?
In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?
- Jan Kochanowski
Treny
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Upon the shadowy shore of death the sea of trouble casts no wave. Eyes that have been curtained by the everlasting dark, will never know again the burning touch of tears. Lips touched by eternal silence will never speak again the broken words of grief. Hearts of dust do not break. The dead do not weep. Within the tomb no veiled and weeping sorrow sits, and in the rayless gloom is crouched no shuddering fear.

I think of those I have loved and lost as having returned to earth, as having become a part of the elemental wealth of the world – I think of them as unconscious dust, I dream of them as gurgling in the streams, floating in the clouds, bursting in the foam of light upon the shores of worlds...
- Robert G. Ingersoll
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Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
- David M. Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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It is life that hurts you not death.
- Martine Leavitt
Keturah and Lord Death
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I not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of suffering
- Raheem Kirlew
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You’re better looking than me. You’re more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than me. Your family is nicer than mine. Your religion is better than mine. You’ve seen more beaches than me. You’ve been to more cities than me. Your automobile is nicer than mine. Your significant other is better looking than mine. Your candidate won. Your home team won. You’re number one. But life is a tie. We all die.
- Jason Daniel Chaplin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My story will be over soon. But it's not something to be sad about. As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.
- Hiro Arikawa
Nana Du Ký
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If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
- Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'
Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
- Christopher Pike
Phantom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
- Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.

Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.

Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.
- Chris Boucher
Doctor Who: Last Man Running
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Funerals often make us want sex—it’s one in the eye for death.
- Thomas Harris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
- Kathryn Stockett
The Help
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The first time is always the hardest
- Sarwat Chadda
Dark Goddess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stock of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him crying: 'Stetson!
You, who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,
Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!
You! hypocrite lecteur!-mon semblable,-mon frere!
- T.S. Eliot
Selected Poems
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Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.
- Jonathan Rosen
Eve's Apple
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.
- Rebecca Rasmussen
The Bird Sisters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
- Anita Shreve
The Pilot's Wife
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.
- Robert Fanney
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[...] But then,
What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?
All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff
Until hard edges break into out path.
Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief?
In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?
- Jan Kochanowski
Treny
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Upon the shadowy shore of death the sea of trouble casts no wave. Eyes that have been curtained by the everlasting dark, will never know again the burning touch of tears. Lips touched by eternal silence will never speak again the broken words of grief. Hearts of dust do not break. The dead do not weep. Within the tomb no veiled and weeping sorrow sits, and in the rayless gloom is crouched no shuddering fear.

I think of those I have loved and lost as having returned to earth, as having become a part of the elemental wealth of the world – I think of them as unconscious dust, I dream of them as gurgling in the streams, floating in the clouds, bursting in the foam of light upon the shores of worlds...
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
- David M. Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is life that hurts you not death.
- Martine Leavitt
Keturah and Lord Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of suffering
- Raheem Kirlew
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You’re better looking than me. You’re more intelligent than me. Your personality is more likable than mine. You make more money than me. Your family is nicer than mine. Your religion is better than mine. You’ve seen more beaches than me. You’ve been to more cities than me. Your automobile is nicer than mine. Your significant other is better looking than mine. Your candidate won. Your home team won. You’re number one. But life is a tie. We all die.
- Jason Daniel Chaplin
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My story will be over soon. But it's not something to be sad about. As we count up the memories from one journey, we head off on another. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon.
- Hiro Arikawa
Nana Du Ký
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
- Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief.
- Meghan O'Rourke
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
John: 'Have mercy. I don't want to die!'
Sita: 'Then you should never have been born.
- Christopher Pike
Phantom
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don't care if I live or die ?
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
- Dan Simmons
The Rise of Endymion
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.

Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.

Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.
- Chris Boucher
Doctor Who: Last Man Running
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Funerals often make us want sex—it’s one in the eye for death.
- Thomas Harris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
- Kathryn Stockett
The Help
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The first time is always the hardest
- Sarwat Chadda
Dark Goddess
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Unreal City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet.
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,
To where St Mary Woolnoth kept the hours
With a dead sound on the final stock of nine.
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him crying: 'Stetson!
You, who were with me in the ships at Mylae!
That corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?
Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?
Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,
Or with his nails he'll dig it up again!
You! hypocrite lecteur!-mon semblable,-mon frere!
- T.S. Eliot
Selected Poems
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way.
- Jonathan Rosen
Eve's Apple
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.
- Rebecca Rasmussen
The Bird Sisters
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room.
- Anita Shreve
The Pilot's Wife
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.
- Robert Fanney
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[...] But then,
What is not vain, by God, in lives of men?
All is in vain! We play at blind man's buff
Until hard edges break into out path.
Man life's is error. Where, then, is relief?
In shedding tears or wrestling down my grief?
- Jan Kochanowski
Treny
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Upon the shadowy shore of death the sea of trouble casts no wave. Eyes that have been curtained by the everlasting dark, will never know again the burning touch of tears. Lips touched by eternal silence will never speak again the broken words of grief. Hearts of dust do not break. The dead do not weep. Within the tomb no veiled and weeping sorrow sits, and in the rayless gloom is crouched no shuddering fear.

I think of those I have loved and lost as having returned to earth, as having become a part of the elemental wealth of the world – I think of them as unconscious dust, I dream of them as gurgling in the streams, floating in the clouds, bursting in the foam of light upon the shores of worlds...
- Robert G. Ingersoll
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
- David M. Eagleman
Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It is life that hurts you not death.
- Martine Leavitt
Keturah and Lord Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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