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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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You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
- James Fenimore Cooper
Last of the Mohicans
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Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.
- Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn
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If we want to discuss love, which after all we believe is something very special, it is not much help for someone to explain that it represents a universal basic principle governing the tides and the digestive system alike. He might as well tell us that death is a thermodynamic phenomenon affecting both the amoeba and a black hole in the constellation of Pegasus - and he would still have told us nothing.
- Patrick Süskind
On Love and Death
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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
- Aberjhani
The River of Winged Dreams
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[B]e comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.
- Paul Harding
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Doctor: 'You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.'

Bruce: 'Why?'

Doctor: 'How can you move faster then possible, fight longer then possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit? The fear of death.'

Bruce:'I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns. And there's no one there to save it.'

Doctor: 'Then make the climb.'

Bruce: 'How?'

Doctor: 'As the child did - without the rope. Then fear will find you again.
- The Dark Knight Rises
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How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
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Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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I came in haste with cursing breath,
And heart of hardest steel;
But when I saw thee cold in death,
I felt as man should feel.

For when I look upon that face,
That cold, unheeding, frigid brown,
Where neither rage nor fear has place,
By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...
- Alexander McCall Smith
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
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Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers).
How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around).
What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
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I may not have any power over it at the moment, but at some point that must change. I can be very patient. I am the end of all things, nephew mine. I shall be the last. When birth has ended, I wil cut Clotho's cord, and she will be no more. The time will come when every last thread has been measured, and I will snip Lachesis from the great weave. In the end only Death and I will remain. Then I will cut his thread, and it will be me alone. With my last strength I will close the shears on my own life. I am the end of everything, including you.
- Kelly McCullough
WebMage
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To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.
- Tana French
In the Woods
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Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.
- Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
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I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.
- Gail Carson Levine
Ever
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But now--it's like God has it out for us. Why both of them? Wasn't my dad enough? It's like death came and punched us square in the face.
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For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)
- Frankie Boyle
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I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.
- John Fowles
The Magus
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For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire.
- Cox, Michael
The Meaning of Night
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America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.
- Neil Gaiman
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
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Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.
- Rachel Klein
The Moth Diaries
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The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
- Maurice Sendak
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How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
- Ray Bradbury
The October Country
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You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
- James Fenimore Cooper
Last of the Mohicans
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Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.
- Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we want to discuss love, which after all we believe is something very special, it is not much help for someone to explain that it represents a universal basic principle governing the tides and the digestive system alike. He might as well tell us that death is a thermodynamic phenomenon affecting both the amoeba and a black hole in the constellation of Pegasus - and he would still have told us nothing.
- Patrick Süskind
On Love and Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
- Aberjhani
The River of Winged Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[B]e comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.
- Paul Harding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doctor: 'You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.'

Bruce: 'Why?'

Doctor: 'How can you move faster then possible, fight longer then possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit? The fear of death.'

Bruce:'I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns. And there's no one there to save it.'

Doctor: 'Then make the climb.'

Bruce: 'How?'

Doctor: 'As the child did - without the rope. Then fear will find you again.
- The Dark Knight Rises
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I came in haste with cursing breath,
And heart of hardest steel;
But when I saw thee cold in death,
I felt as man should feel.

For when I look upon that face,
That cold, unheeding, frigid brown,
Where neither rage nor fear has place,
By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...
- Alexander McCall Smith
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers).
How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around).
What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I may not have any power over it at the moment, but at some point that must change. I can be very patient. I am the end of all things, nephew mine. I shall be the last. When birth has ended, I wil cut Clotho's cord, and she will be no more. The time will come when every last thread has been measured, and I will snip Lachesis from the great weave. In the end only Death and I will remain. Then I will cut his thread, and it will be me alone. With my last strength I will close the shears on my own life. I am the end of everything, including you.
- Kelly McCullough
WebMage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.
- Tana French
In the Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.
- Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.
- Gail Carson Levine
Ever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But now--it's like God has it out for us. Why both of them? Wasn't my dad enough? It's like death came and punched us square in the face.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)
- Frankie Boyle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.
- John Fowles
The Magus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire.
- Cox, Michael
The Meaning of Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.
- Neil Gaiman
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.
- Rachel Klein
The Moth Diaries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
- Maurice Sendak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
- Ray Bradbury
The October Country
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!
- James Fenimore Cooper
Last of the Mohicans
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Phaedra of Alonso’s death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.
- Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we want to discuss love, which after all we believe is something very special, it is not much help for someone to explain that it represents a universal basic principle governing the tides and the digestive system alike. He might as well tell us that death is a thermodynamic phenomenon affecting both the amoeba and a black hole in the constellation of Pegasus - and he would still have told us nothing.
- Patrick Süskind
On Love and Death
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
- Aberjhani
The River of Winged Dreams
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[B]e comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember: You will be dead and buried soon enough.
- Paul Harding
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Doctor: 'You do not fear death. You think this makes you strong. It makes you weak.'

Bruce: 'Why?'

Doctor: 'How can you move faster then possible, fight longer then possible, without the most powerful impulse of the spirit? The fear of death.'

Bruce:'I do fear death. I fear dying in here while my city burns. And there's no one there to save it.'

Doctor: 'Then make the climb.'

Bruce: 'How?'

Doctor: 'As the child did - without the rope. Then fear will find you again.
- The Dark Knight Rises
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I came in haste with cursing breath,
And heart of hardest steel;
But when I saw thee cold in death,
I felt as man should feel.

For when I look upon that face,
That cold, unheeding, frigid brown,
Where neither rage nor fear has place,
By Heaven! I cannot hate thee now!
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Do you realise that people die of boredom in London suburbs? It's the second biggest cause of death amongs the English in general. Sheer boredom...
- Alexander McCall Smith
Friends, Lovers, Chocolate
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers).
How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around).
What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.
- Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22: A Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I may not have any power over it at the moment, but at some point that must change. I can be very patient. I am the end of all things, nephew mine. I shall be the last. When birth has ended, I wil cut Clotho's cord, and she will be no more. The time will come when every last thread has been measured, and I will snip Lachesis from the great weave. In the end only Death and I will remain. Then I will cut his thread, and it will be me alone. With my last strength I will close the shears on my own life. I am the end of everything, including you.
- Kelly McCullough
WebMage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.
- Tana French
In the Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Take me as godfather." The man asked, "Who art thou?" "I am Death, and I make all equal." Then said the man, "Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather." Death answered, "I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.
- Jacob Ludwig Karl Grimm
Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.
- Gail Carson Levine
Ever
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But now--it's like God has it out for us. Why both of them? Wasn't my dad enough? It's like death came and punched us square in the face.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)
- Frankie Boyle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.
- John Fowles
The Magus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For Death is the meaning of night;
The eternal shadow
Into which all lives must fall,
All hopes expire.
- Cox, Michael
The Meaning of Night
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.
- Neil Gaiman
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.
- Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.
- Rachel Klein
The Moth Diaries
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.
- Maurice Sendak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.
- Ray Bradbury
The October Country
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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