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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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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Advice for a Young Investigator
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Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.
- Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
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It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?
- Mary Roach
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Family will always kill you -- some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it.
- Tiphanie Yanique
Land of Love and Drowning
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What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.
- Nalini Singh
Angels' Blood
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He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
- G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
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The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.
- Yuu Watase
Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden, Vol. 06
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He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.
- Vernon D. Burns
Gods of the Jungle Planet
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When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
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Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?"

"No, Matthew. What do they say?"

"The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.
- Neil Gaiman
The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
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Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die
- Nick Burd
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
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Dante: Evergreens aren't supposed to die

Renee: Everything Dies ..
- Yvonne Wood
Dead Beautiful
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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
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He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
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His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling.
He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.
- Terry Goodkind
Wizard's First Rule
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I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.
- Rosie Thomas
Iris & Ruby
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Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.
- Nancy E. Turner
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
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I have no horror of death, and place no value on any god. Cease therefore. For I come ready to die; and first I bring you these gifts. (Mezentius)
- Virgil
The Aeneid
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… she’s worried more about mail being late than perceiving a death alarm.
- Misba
The High Auction
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Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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MOM

Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devotion.

It was a blessing-
To have been her son,
To have been loved-
Without conditions.

Her words of wisdom-
Opened my eyes-
To the world-
And to myself.

By seeing the best in me,
She empowered me.
By believing in me,
She transformed me.

She grew old-
And floated away,
But her love remains standing-
Eternally by my side.
- Giorge Leedy
Uninhibited From Lust To Love
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The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
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What if it's as simple as one moment? One tiny thing, like that kiss on the rocks? What if I'd kissed him a little longer? Would he be alive right now? Or what if I'd stayed with him Friday night, what if I'd been with him… wherever he was?
- Kristina McBride
One Moment
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Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.
- Tasha Alexander
And Only to Deceive
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Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Advice for a Young Investigator
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.
- Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?
- Mary Roach
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Family will always kill you -- some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it.
- Tiphanie Yanique
Land of Love and Drowning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.
- Nalini Singh
Angels' Blood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
- G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.
- Yuu Watase
Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden, Vol. 06
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.
- Vernon D. Burns
Gods of the Jungle Planet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?"

"No, Matthew. What do they say?"

"The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.
- Neil Gaiman
The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die
- Nick Burd
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dante: Evergreens aren't supposed to die

Renee: Everything Dies ..
- Yvonne Wood
Dead Beautiful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling.
He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.
- Terry Goodkind
Wizard's First Rule
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.
- Rosie Thomas
Iris & Ruby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.
- Nancy E. Turner
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have no horror of death, and place no value on any god. Cease therefore. For I come ready to die; and first I bring you these gifts. (Mezentius)
- Virgil
The Aeneid
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
… she’s worried more about mail being late than perceiving a death alarm.
- Misba
The High Auction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
MOM

Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devotion.

It was a blessing-
To have been her son,
To have been loved-
Without conditions.

Her words of wisdom-
Opened my eyes-
To the world-
And to myself.

By seeing the best in me,
She empowered me.
By believing in me,
She transformed me.

She grew old-
And floated away,
But her love remains standing-
Eternally by my side.
- Giorge Leedy
Uninhibited From Lust To Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What if it's as simple as one moment? One tiny thing, like that kiss on the rocks? What if I'd kissed him a little longer? Would he be alive right now? Or what if I'd stayed with him Friday night, what if I'd been with him… wherever he was?
- Kristina McBride
One Moment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.
- Tasha Alexander
And Only to Deceive
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Advice for a Young Investigator
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's the other way round: one coffin and a hundred people carrying flowers.
- Vasily Grossman
Life and Fate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?
- Mary Roach
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Family will always kill you -- some bit by bit, others all at once. It is the love that does it.
- Tiphanie Yanique
Land of Love and Drowning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.
- Nalini Singh
Angels' Blood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it.
- G.K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The most ruthless of all humans are the ones cornered in by death.
- Yuu Watase
Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden, Vol. 06
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He thought he saw some horses, too, and a clown, but it was the faces of all those dead raptors that really bothered him. And maybe that clown a little bit.
- Vernon D. Burns
Gods of the Jungle Planet
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "So it goes.
- Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse-Five
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?"

"No, Matthew. What do they say?"

"The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.
- Neil Gaiman
The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sprawled out on the front lawn Looking up at an ordinary sky It could fall on me and somehow be The day I didn't die
- Nick Burd
The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dante: Evergreens aren't supposed to die

Renee: Everything Dies ..
- Yvonne Wood
Dead Beautiful
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He did not know that the Old One was his father, for such a relationship was utterly beyond his understanding, but as he looked at the emaciated body he felt a dim disquiet that was the ancestor of sadness.
- Arthur C. Clarke
2001: A Space Odyssey
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His face set in grim determination, Richard slogged ahead, his fingers reaching up to touch the tooth under his shirt. Loneliness, deeper than he had never known, sagged his shoulders. All his friends were lost to him. He knew now that his life was not his own. It belonged to his duty, to his task. He was the Seeker. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not his own man, but a pawn to be used by others. A tool, same as his sword, to help others, that they might have the life he had only glimpsed for a twinkling.
He was no different from the dark things in the boundary. A bringer of death.
- Terry Goodkind
Wizard's First Rule
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I've grieved enough for his life cut short and for mine for running on for so long with so little in it. It's weakness now, but I suppose I am crying out of a general sense of loss. Maybe I am mourning for the human condition.
- Rosie Thomas
Iris & Ruby
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mama said it's probably because of Suzanne, and that you are never the same after a child dies. That made me wonder what she was like before Clover died, because I don't think I really knew my own mother until I had children, and if she was different before, I don't remember.
- Nancy E. Turner
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have no horror of death, and place no value on any god. Cease therefore. For I come ready to die; and first I bring you these gifts. (Mezentius)
- Virgil
The Aeneid
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
… she’s worried more about mail being late than perceiving a death alarm.
- Misba
The High Auction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
- Ray Bradbury
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
MOM

Wholeheartedly,
She loved me-
And inspired me-
With transcending devotion.

It was a blessing-
To have been her son,
To have been loved-
Without conditions.

Her words of wisdom-
Opened my eyes-
To the world-
And to myself.

By seeing the best in me,
She empowered me.
By believing in me,
She transformed me.

She grew old-
And floated away,
But her love remains standing-
Eternally by my side.
- Giorge Leedy
Uninhibited From Lust To Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms.
- Criss Jami
Killosophy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What if it's as simple as one moment? One tiny thing, like that kiss on the rocks? What if I'd kissed him a little longer? Would he be alive right now? Or what if I'd stayed with him Friday night, what if I'd been with him… wherever he was?
- Kristina McBride
One Moment
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating.
- Tasha Alexander
And Only to Deceive
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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