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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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Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.
- Anthony Liccione
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Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.
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This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.
- George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows
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Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.
- John Logan
Red
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Fear leads to death as the window to the courtyard. Jump!
- Grigoris Deoudis
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Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.
- Franz Rosenzweig
Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
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Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.
- C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
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With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.
- Tess Gerritsen
The Silent Girl
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My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.
HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -
GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?
HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
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Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.
- Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
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Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
- Jodi Picoult
Salem Falls
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Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.
- Megan Boyle
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In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.
- Justin Cronin
The Passage
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A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.
- Jean Cocteau
The Holy Terrors
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I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit.
Now gone.
Just gone.
Like a chessboard where suddenly one of the knights disappeared. A blank spot on the board of life that could never truly be replaced because no two things were alike, no two beings alike.
- Cheyenne McCray
Demons Not Included
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Nothing in life was as ugly as death.
- Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory
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Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
- Elias Canetti
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Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
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Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.
- Floyd C. Forsberg
The Toughest Prison of All
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So the will's desire for death is not a desire for nonexistence, but a desire for peace. When someone wrongly believes that he will not exist, he desires by nature to be at peace; that is, he desire to exist in a higher degree.
- Augustine of Hippo
On Free Choice of the Will
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YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about.
- Terry Pratchett
Sourcery
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I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.
- J.M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians
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Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.
- Benjamin R. Smith
Atlas
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Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
We are all held in a single honour, the brave with the weaklings.
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
- Richmond Lattimore
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Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.
- Anthony Liccione
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.
- George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.
- John Logan
Red
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Fear leads to death as the window to the courtyard. Jump!
- Grigoris Deoudis
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Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.
- Franz Rosenzweig
Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
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Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.
- C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
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With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.
- Tess Gerritsen
The Silent Girl
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My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.
HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -
GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?
HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.
- Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
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Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
- Jodi Picoult
Salem Falls
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.
- Megan Boyle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.
- Justin Cronin
The Passage
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A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.
- Jean Cocteau
The Holy Terrors
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit.
Now gone.
Just gone.
Like a chessboard where suddenly one of the knights disappeared. A blank spot on the board of life that could never truly be replaced because no two things were alike, no two beings alike.
- Cheyenne McCray
Demons Not Included
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing in life was as ugly as death.
- Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
- Elias Canetti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.
- Floyd C. Forsberg
The Toughest Prison of All
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So the will's desire for death is not a desire for nonexistence, but a desire for peace. When someone wrongly believes that he will not exist, he desires by nature to be at peace; that is, he desire to exist in a higher degree.
- Augustine of Hippo
On Free Choice of the Will
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about.
- Terry Pratchett
Sourcery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.
- J.M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.
- Benjamin R. Smith
Atlas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
We are all held in a single honour, the brave with the weaklings.
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
- Richmond Lattimore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Please don´t drown into his fears, his concrete fists don´t let him again, break the bridge of your nose with his cruel born hits. Then disappear into that mask of misery.
- Anthony Liccione
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.
- George R.R. Martin
A Feast for Crows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.
- John Logan
Red
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fear leads to death as the window to the courtyard. Jump!
- Grigoris Deoudis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.
- Franz Rosenzweig
Franz Rosenzweig: His Life and Thought
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once very near the end I said, 'If you can -- if it is allowed -- come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.
- C.S. Lewis
A Grief Observed
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With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.
- Tess Gerritsen
The Silent Girl
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.
HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -
GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?
HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.
- Neil Gaiman
The Graveyard Book
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.
- Jodi Picoult
Salem Falls
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.
- Megan Boyle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.
- Justin Cronin
The Passage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of recuperation, he is bound to envisage, at once, the very worst; yet at the same time, because of his inability to imagine death, the worst remains totally unreal to him. Gerard went on repeating: "Paul's dying; Paul's going to die"' but he did not believe it. Paul's death would be part of the dream, a dream of snow, of journeying forever.
- Jean Cocteau
The Holy Terrors
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I could picture how Caprice was before we lost her. Dark hair, beautiful smile, intelligent hazel eyes, quick wit.
Now gone.
Just gone.
Like a chessboard where suddenly one of the knights disappeared. A blank spot on the board of life that could never truly be replaced because no two things were alike, no two beings alike.
- Cheyenne McCray
Demons Not Included
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nothing in life was as ugly as death.
- Graham Greene
The Power and the Glory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages
- Elias Canetti
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.
- Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.
- Floyd C. Forsberg
The Toughest Prison of All
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
So the will's desire for death is not a desire for nonexistence, but a desire for peace. When someone wrongly believes that he will not exist, he desires by nature to be at peace; that is, he desire to exist in a higher degree.
- Augustine of Hippo
On Free Choice of the Will
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.
That's what being alive is all about.
- Terry Pratchett
Sourcery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as stupid and befuddled as I am.
- J.M. Coetzee
Waiting for the Barbarians
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.
- Benjamin R. Smith
Atlas
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard.
We are all held in a single honour, the brave with the weaklings.
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
- Richmond Lattimore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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