QUOTES ABOUT DEATH
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
We will die here and trust the meaning of our lives to the next generation.. That is the sole way we can rebel against this cruel world !
- Hajime Isayama
進撃の巨人 20 [Shingeki no Kyojin 20]
Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to “How do I bear this?” need not always be “Endure.
- Anna Lyndsey
Girl in the Dark
I want to look at you as you kill me.
- Curtis Jobling
Rise of the Wolf
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
- Al Alvarez
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
Why, yes, the moment you’re born, your death comes into the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.
But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.
- Kami Garcia
I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.
Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy did its part to further the goals of the Mercenaries—glamorizing death, making dying for love seem the most noble act of all, though nothing could be further from the truth. Taking an innocent life—in a misguided attempt to prove love or for any other reason—is a useless waste.
- Stacey Jay
Juliet Immortal
God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...
जीवनका प्रत्येक पल मृत्युको सँघार टेक्दछु ।
- Suman Pokhrel
हजार आँखा यी आँखामा [Hazaar Aankhaa Yee Aankhaama]
The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts.
- Neal Stephenson
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,
- Allen Ginsberg
Howl and Other Poems
There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief— and even death.
- Priscille Sibley
The Promise of Stardust
The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...
- Walter de la Mare
The Return
God is dead and I am his replacement.
- J.D. Robb
Conspiracy in Death
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.
Death is easiest for the deceased.
[Dr. Sydney Wilcox]
- D.J. Palmer
The New Husband
She was made mostly of coffee and empty spaces.
- Adelise M. Cullens
Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry
We will die here and trust the meaning of our lives to the next generation.. That is the sole way we can rebel against this cruel world !
- Hajime Isayama
進撃の巨人 20 [Shingeki no Kyojin 20]
Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to “How do I bear this?” need not always be “Endure.
- Anna Lyndsey
Girl in the Dark
I want to look at you as you kill me.
- Curtis Jobling
Rise of the Wolf
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
- Al Alvarez
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
Why, yes, the moment you’re born, your death comes into the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.
But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.
- Kami Garcia
I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.
Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy did its part to further the goals of the Mercenaries—glamorizing death, making dying for love seem the most noble act of all, though nothing could be further from the truth. Taking an innocent life—in a misguided attempt to prove love or for any other reason—is a useless waste.
- Stacey Jay
Juliet Immortal
God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...
जीवनका प्रत्येक पल मृत्युको सँघार टेक्दछु ।
- Suman Pokhrel
हजार आँखा यी आँखामा [Hazaar Aankhaa Yee Aankhaama]
The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts.
- Neal Stephenson
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,
- Allen Ginsberg
Howl and Other Poems
There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief— and even death.
- Priscille Sibley
The Promise of Stardust
The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...
- Walter de la Mare
The Return
God is dead and I am his replacement.
- J.D. Robb
Conspiracy in Death
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.
Death is easiest for the deceased.
[Dr. Sydney Wilcox]
- D.J. Palmer
The New Husband
She was made mostly of coffee and empty spaces.
- Adelise M. Cullens
Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry
We will die here and trust the meaning of our lives to the next generation.. That is the sole way we can rebel against this cruel world !
- Hajime Isayama
進撃の巨人 20 [Shingeki no Kyojin 20]
Most of the time, I do not want to die. But I would like to have the means of death within my grasp. I want to feel the luxury of choice, to know the answer to “How do I bear this?” need not always be “Endure.
- Anna Lyndsey
Girl in the Dark
I want to look at you as you kill me.
- Curtis Jobling
Rise of the Wolf
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.
- Al Alvarez
The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
Why, yes, the moment you’re born, your death comes into the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.
But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffensiveness by all to all.
- Herman Melville
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.
- Kami Garcia
I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
- Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.
- Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master and Margarita
Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can get.
Shakespeare’s enduring tragedy did its part to further the goals of the Mercenaries—glamorizing death, making dying for love seem the most noble act of all, though nothing could be further from the truth. Taking an innocent life—in a misguided attempt to prove love or for any other reason—is a useless waste.
- Stacey Jay
Juliet Immortal
God forgive me everything!’ she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling...
जीवनका प्रत्येक पल मृत्युको सँघार टेक्दछु ।
- Suman Pokhrel
हजार आँखा यी आँखामा [Hazaar Aankhaa Yee Aankhaama]
The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts.
- Neal Stephenson
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes,
- Allen Ginsberg
Howl and Other Poems
There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief— and even death.
- Priscille Sibley
The Promise of Stardust
The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...
- Walter de la Mare
The Return
God is dead and I am his replacement.
- J.D. Robb
Conspiracy in Death
Being unable to cure death, wretchedness and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.
Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.
Death is easiest for the deceased.
[Dr. Sydney Wilcox]
- D.J. Palmer
The New Husband
She was made mostly of coffee and empty spaces.
- Adelise M. Cullens
Dead Bunnies Make All Eight Of Me Cry
