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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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These are the ushers of Martius: before him
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.
Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie,
Which being advanc'd, declines, and then men die.
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When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
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When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
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Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
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The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.
- Kenzaburō Ōe
Hiroshima Notes
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That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!
- Connie Willis
Passage
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If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)
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He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
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There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.
- Elizabeth Berg
The Year of Pleasures
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I'm gonna kill him," Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like filtered through the pillow.
Stake him right in the heart, shove garlic up his ass, and-and-"

And what?" (Michael)

When did you get home?" Claire demanded.

Apparently just in time to hear my funeral plans. I especially like the garlic up the ass. It's...different.
- Rachel Caine
Feast of Fools
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Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it's time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
- Jo Nesbo
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No one here gets out alive.
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After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
- E.B. White
Charlotte’s Web
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Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.
- Karen Marie Moning
Shadowfever
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No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
- Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
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What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
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Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
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My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours
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Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.
- Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
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These are the ushers of Martius: before him
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.
Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie,
Which being advanc'd, declines, and then men die.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
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The meaning of life is that it stops.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.
- Kenzaburō Ōe
Hiroshima Notes
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That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!
- Connie Willis
Passage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.
- Elizabeth Berg
The Year of Pleasures
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm gonna kill him," Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like filtered through the pillow.
Stake him right in the heart, shove garlic up his ass, and-and-"

And what?" (Michael)

When did you get home?" Claire demanded.

Apparently just in time to hear my funeral plans. I especially like the garlic up the ass. It's...different.
- Rachel Caine
Feast of Fools
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it's time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
- Jo Nesbo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one here gets out alive.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
- E.B. White
Charlotte’s Web
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.
- Karen Marie Moning
Shadowfever
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No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
- Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.
- Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
These are the ushers of Martius: before him
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.
Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie,
Which being advanc'd, declines, and then men die.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.
- John Irving
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The meaning of life is that it stops.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.
- Kenzaburō Ōe
Hiroshima Notes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!
- Connie Willis
Passage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If I die, I will wait for you, do you understand? No matter how long. I will watch from beyond to make sure you live every year you have to its fullest, and then we’ll have so much to talk about when I see you again… (Bones)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.
- Elizabeth Berg
The Year of Pleasures
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'm gonna kill him," Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like filtered through the pillow.
Stake him right in the heart, shove garlic up his ass, and-and-"

And what?" (Michael)

When did you get home?" Claire demanded.

Apparently just in time to hear my funeral plans. I especially like the garlic up the ass. It's...different.
- Rachel Caine
Feast of Fools
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But if you have to go, then go. Go if it hurts. Go if it's time. Just go knowing you were loved, that I will never forget you, that you will live in everything Connor and I do. Go knowing I love you purely, Harry, that you were an amazing father. Go knowing I told you all my secrets. Because you were my best friend.
- Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
- Jo Nesbo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one here gets out alive.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.
- E.B. White
Charlotte’s Web
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dying is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy, suffering. That's the hard thing.
- Karen Marie Moning
Shadowfever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
- Terry Pratchett
Reaper Man
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What do you most value in your friends?
Their continued existence.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.
- Shaun David Hutchinson
We Are the Ants
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My Dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
-Falsely yours
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.
- Stephen Fry
Moab Is My Washpot
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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