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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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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
- Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

How would that be? Just how would that be?
- Stephen King
The Long Walk
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If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels; and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.
- Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning
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I sat in my brown-belted gi at the painted metal table outside of Einstein’s and Peet’s with Mr. Ho, my Kenpo Karate instructor in his black-belted gi, and my bronze, canine psychologist, wearing his/her Lacoste eyeglasses.
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
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The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.
- Steven James
Story: Recapture the Mystery
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Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
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love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...
A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!
- Ruskin Bond
Scenes from a Writer's Life
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the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
- Umberto Eco
The Island of the Day Before
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All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
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It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.
- Terry Pratchett
Pyramids
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If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.
- Derek Landy, Death Bringer
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So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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I said, 'I need to know how he died.'
He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'
So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?
- Elizabeth Wein
Code Name Verity
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Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
- Brandon Sanderson
Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
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We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves
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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
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It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.
- Kristin Cast
Hunted
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Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?
- Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue
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Give me a meaningful love or a beautiful death!
- Renee Ahdieh
The Rose & the Dagger
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All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
- Clarence Darrow
The Story of My Life
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When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to comfort us and make us feel like we have some control over these things that are much bigger than we are.
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
- Byron
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
- Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

How would that be? Just how would that be?
- Stephen King
The Long Walk
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If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels; and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.
- Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning
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I sat in my brown-belted gi at the painted metal table outside of Einstein’s and Peet’s with Mr. Ho, my Kenpo Karate instructor in his black-belted gi, and my bronze, canine psychologist, wearing his/her Lacoste eyeglasses.
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.
- Steven James
Story: Recapture the Mystery
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Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
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love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...
A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!
- Ruskin Bond
Scenes from a Writer's Life
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the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
- Umberto Eco
The Island of the Day Before
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.
- Terry Pratchett
Pyramids
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If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.
- Derek Landy, Death Bringer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I said, 'I need to know how he died.'
He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'
So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?
- Elizabeth Wein
Code Name Verity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
- Brandon Sanderson
Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.
- Kristin Cast
Hunted
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?
- Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Give me a meaningful love or a beautiful death!
- Renee Ahdieh
The Rose & the Dagger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
- Clarence Darrow
The Story of My Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to comfort us and make us feel like we have some control over these things that are much bigger than we are.
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
- Byron
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.
- Sherman Alexie
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death.

How would that be? Just how would that be?
- Stephen King
The Long Walk
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels; and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.
- Lemony Snicket
The Bad Beginning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I sat in my brown-belted gi at the painted metal table outside of Einstein’s and Peet’s with Mr. Ho, my Kenpo Karate instructor in his black-belted gi, and my bronze, canine psychologist, wearing his/her Lacoste eyeglasses.
- M S M Barkawitz
Feeling Lucky
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy with God. If the cross was the end of the story, we would have no hope. But the cross isn't the end. Jesus didn't escape from death; he conquered it and opened the way to heaven for all who will dare to believe. The truth of this moment, if we let it sweep over us, is stunning. It means Jesus really is who he claimed to be, we are really as lost as he said we are, and he really is the only way for us to intimately and spiritually connect with God again.
- Steven James
Story: Recapture the Mystery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Maybe before you die, it's your ghosts you see.
- Lauren Oliver
Before I Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
love is undying,of that I feel certain.I mean deep,abiding,cherishing love.The love that gives protection even as you,my guardian angel,gave me protection long after you had gone-and continue to give this very day...
A love beyond Death-a love that makes Life alive!
- Ruskin Bond
Scenes from a Writer's Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.
- Umberto Eco
The Island of the Day Before
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated... As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all... No man is an island, entire of itself... any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
- John Donne
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Death's Duel
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.
- Terry Pratchett
Pyramids
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.
- Derek Landy, Death Bringer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
- Muriel Barbery
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I said, 'I need to know how he died.'
He flipped back and pointed at, 'Why?'
So I can stop inventing how he died. I'm always inventing.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart?
- Elizabeth Wein
Code Name Verity
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.
- Brandon Sanderson
Alcatraz Versus the Knights of Crystallia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence.
- Virginia Woolf
The Waves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.
- Kristin Cast
Hunted
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?
- Kristin Cashore
Bitterblue
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Give me a meaningful love or a beautiful death!
- Renee Ahdieh
The Rose & the Dagger
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
- Clarence Darrow
The Story of My Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to comfort us and make us feel like we have some control over these things that are much bigger than we are.
- Chelsie Shakespeare
The Pull
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
- Byron
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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