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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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There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
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Topic: Death
At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
- David Levien
City of the Sun
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.
- Nicholas A. McGirr
The Growing Dim Project: Book One
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The more violent this war becomes, the more the deceased start to just look like numbers. How many died yesterday? How many died today? The line between human losses and those of money and equipment begin to blur. There is no individual, no soul, and no dignity to death. But you're fighting back against that.
- Kafka Asagiri
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.
- Isabel Allende
Eva Luna
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
This is war, and people are going to die. Friends are going to die. I've come to accept the pain, to take the ugliness for granted. So it can be a little stunning when something good actually happens.
- Pittacus Lore
The Fate of Ten
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.
- Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I've since found out it's common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition units in our brain being too heated and too easily triggered. This cruel trick of the mind lasted only a few moments, but was long enough to feel with physical force how much I needed you.
- Rosamund Lupton
Sister
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.
- Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Glow
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard.
And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out
forever.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Topic: Death
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
- R.A. Salvatore
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
When your demon was yourself, there really was no way to fight or get rid of it.
- Holly Hood
Prison of Paradise
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!
- George Sterling
The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
If I touch a burning candle
I can feel no pain
If you cut me with a knife
It's still the same
And I know her heart is beating
And I know that I am dead
Yet the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
And it seems I still have a tear to shed
- Tim Burton
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story
Topic: Death
The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
The people we’d want to share it all with die before we get it.
Topic: Death, Success
He said, "Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her!"
"Who, sir?" asked Paramore, puzzled.
"Why, his sister, John. His sister.
- Susanna Clarke
The Sandman: Book of Dreams
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
- David Levien
City of the Sun
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.
- Nicholas A. McGirr
The Growing Dim Project: Book One
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The more violent this war becomes, the more the deceased start to just look like numbers. How many died yesterday? How many died today? The line between human losses and those of money and equipment begin to blur. There is no individual, no soul, and no dignity to death. But you're fighting back against that.
- Kafka Asagiri
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.
- Isabel Allende
Eva Luna
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
This is war, and people are going to die. Friends are going to die. I've come to accept the pain, to take the ugliness for granted. So it can be a little stunning when something good actually happens.
- Pittacus Lore
The Fate of Ten
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.
- Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I've since found out it's common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition units in our brain being too heated and too easily triggered. This cruel trick of the mind lasted only a few moments, but was long enough to feel with physical force how much I needed you.
- Rosamund Lupton
Sister
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.
- Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Glow
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard.
And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out
forever.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Topic: Death
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
- R.A. Salvatore
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
When your demon was yourself, there really was no way to fight or get rid of it.
- Holly Hood
Prison of Paradise
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!
- George Sterling
The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
If I touch a burning candle
I can feel no pain
If you cut me with a knife
It's still the same
And I know her heart is beating
And I know that I am dead
Yet the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
And it seems I still have a tear to shed
- Tim Burton
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story
Topic: Death
The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
The people we’d want to share it all with die before we get it.
Topic: Death, Success
He said, "Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her!"
"Who, sir?" asked Paramore, puzzled.
"Why, his sister, John. His sister.
- Susanna Clarke
The Sandman: Book of Dreams
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit's. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.
- Richard Adams
Watership Down
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.
- David Levien
City of the Sun
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.
- Nicholas A. McGirr
The Growing Dim Project: Book One
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
- Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The more violent this war becomes, the more the deceased start to just look like numbers. How many died yesterday? How many died today? The line between human losses and those of money and equipment begin to blur. There is no individual, no soul, and no dignity to death. But you're fighting back against that.
- Kafka Asagiri
文豪ストレイドッグス 太宰治と黒の時代 [Bungō Stray Dogs - Dazai Osamu to kuro no jidai]
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Attending a funeral would leave the average person insane, if they truly believed that sooner or later they are also going to die.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.
- James Baldwin
The Fire Next Time
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover over her during that period, as a kind of higher order of lassitude in which she would not have to move the blood in her veins or the air in her lungs; her repose would be absolute- not to think, not to feel, not to be.
- Isabel Allende
Eva Luna
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
This is war, and people are going to die. Friends are going to die. I've come to accept the pain, to take the ugliness for granted. So it can be a little stunning when something good actually happens.
- Pittacus Lore
The Fate of Ten
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
If you can kill it, or it can kill you, it's real.
- Laini Taylor
Daughter of Smoke & Bone
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The times that were most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now, because it was when life started to feel like it did when she was with us that we realized how utterly gone she was.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
For a moment amongst the crowd, I saw you. I've since found out it's common for people separated from someone they love to keep seeing that loved one amongst strangers; something to do with recognition units in our brain being too heated and too easily triggered. This cruel trick of the mind lasted only a few moments, but was long enough to feel with physical force how much I needed you.
- Rosamund Lupton
Sister
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Now that her spirit had left, I’d thought she would feel light. Then I realized it was the spirit that carries the weight of the body and not the other way around.
- Jessica Maria Tuccelli
Glow
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard.
And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out
forever.
- Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Topic: Death
...a third [of three] had died in his bunk of natural causes--for a dagger in the heart quite naturally ends one's life.
- R.A. Salvatore
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
When your demon was yourself, there really was no way to fight or get rid of it.
- Holly Hood
Prison of Paradise
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
Dear as remembered kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others; deep as love,
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret;
O Death in Life, the days that are no more!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!
- George Sterling
The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
If I touch a burning candle
I can feel no pain
If you cut me with a knife
It's still the same
And I know her heart is beating
And I know that I am dead
Yet the pain here that I feel
Try and tell me it's not real
And it seems I still have a tear to shed
- Tim Burton
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: The Illustrated Story
Topic: Death
The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
XXX
NOT YET RATING ▼
The people we’d want to share it all with die before we get it.
Topic: Death, Success
He said, "Were he only like his sister—what a difference that would make! For there never was such a sweet and gentle lady! I hear her footsteps, as she goes about the world. I hear the swish-swish-swish of her silken gown and the jingle-jangle of the silver chain about her neck. Her smile is full of comfort and her eyes are kind and happy! How I long to see her!"
"Who, sir?" asked Paramore, puzzled.
"Why, his sister, John. His sister.
- Susanna Clarke
The Sandman: Book of Dreams
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Death
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