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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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One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?
- Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter
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I won't be sad too often,
If they bury me in the library
With bookworms in my coffin.
- J. Patrick Lewis
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Die, die we all pass away,
But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay,
And you might try to hide, And you might try to pray,
But we all end up remains of the day.
- Danny Elfman - The Corpse Bride
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All that tread,
The globe are but a handful to the tribes,
That slumber in its bosom.
- William Cullen Bryant
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Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.
But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out!
Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze,
But that this folly doubts it.
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Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.
- Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage
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The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean.
- Diana Rowland
My Life as a White Trash Zombie
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Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
- Luis Alberto Urrea
The Hummingbird's Daughter
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Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
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Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?
- Christy Leigh Stewart
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Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
- Bertolt Brecht
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Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.
- Gaston Leroux
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While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the night before about Antonio Jones, who had been dead for several years now. As before, he asked himself what Jones could have died of, and the one answer that occurred to him was old age. One day, walking down some street in Brooklyn, Antonio Jones had felt tired, sat down on the sidewalk, and a second later stopped existing.
- Roberto Bolaño
2666
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
- William Goodman
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Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.
- Columba Stewart
Prayer and Community: The Benedictine Tradition
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Few deaths can match the refined agony of being the one left behind
- Tana French
In the Woods
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I believe that to be the world's greatest living
writer
there must be something
terribly wrong with you.
I don't even want to be the world's greatest
dead writer.
just being dead would be fair
enough.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven. The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of their bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
- Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
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Bubba then grabbed a hold of my leg and his eyes got all cloudy and that terrible pink sky seem to drain all the colour in his face.
He was trying to say something, and so I bent over real close to hear what it was. But I never could make it out. So I asked the medic, ' You hear what he say?'
And the medic say, 'Home. He said, home.'
Bubba, he died, and that's all I got to say about that.
- Winston Groom
Forrest Gump
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Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?
- Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
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I don't want to die without any scars.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
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One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?
- Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I won't be sad too often,
If they bury me in the library
With bookworms in my coffin.
- J. Patrick Lewis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Die, die we all pass away,
But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay,
And you might try to hide, And you might try to pray,
But we all end up remains of the day.
- Danny Elfman - The Corpse Bride
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that tread,
The globe are but a handful to the tribes,
That slumber in its bosom.
- William Cullen Bryant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.
But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out!
Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze,
But that this folly doubts it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.
- Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean.
- Diana Rowland
My Life as a White Trash Zombie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
- Luis Alberto Urrea
The Hummingbird's Daughter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?
- Christy Leigh Stewart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
- Bertolt Brecht
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.
- Gaston Leroux
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the night before about Antonio Jones, who had been dead for several years now. As before, he asked himself what Jones could have died of, and the one answer that occurred to him was old age. One day, walking down some street in Brooklyn, Antonio Jones had felt tired, sat down on the sidewalk, and a second later stopped existing.
- Roberto Bolaño
2666
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
- William Goodman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.
- Columba Stewart
Prayer and Community: The Benedictine Tradition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Few deaths can match the refined agony of being the one left behind
- Tana French
In the Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that to be the world's greatest living
writer
there must be something
terribly wrong with you.
I don't even want to be the world's greatest
dead writer.
just being dead would be fair
enough.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven. The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of their bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
- Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bubba then grabbed a hold of my leg and his eyes got all cloudy and that terrible pink sky seem to drain all the colour in his face.
He was trying to say something, and so I bent over real close to hear what it was. But I never could make it out. So I asked the medic, ' You hear what he say?'
And the medic say, 'Home. He said, home.'
Bubba, he died, and that's all I got to say about that.
- Winston Groom
Forrest Gump
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?
- Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't want to die without any scars.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?
- Graham Greene
The Heart of the Matter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I won't be sad too often,
If they bury me in the library
With bookworms in my coffin.
- J. Patrick Lewis
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Die, die we all pass away,
But don't wear a frown coz it's really okay,
And you might try to hide, And you might try to pray,
But we all end up remains of the day.
- Danny Elfman - The Corpse Bride
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All that tread,
The globe are but a handful to the tribes,
That slumber in its bosom.
- William Cullen Bryant
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.
But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out!
Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze,
But that this folly doubts it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.
- Paulo Coelho
The Pilgrimage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean.
- Diana Rowland
My Life as a White Trash Zombie
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
- Luis Alberto Urrea
The Hummingbird's Daughter
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why is edamame always ready to expire? It´s so urgent for a vegetable. Edamame. It sounds like an assisted form of suicide. Is there an advertising concept in this?
- Suzanne Finnamore
Split: A Memoir of Divorce
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world?
- Christy Leigh Stewart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
- Bertolt Brecht
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.
- Gaston Leroux
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
While he was waiting, leaning on the counter at a coffee place, he remembered the dream he'd had the night before about Antonio Jones, who had been dead for several years now. As before, he asked himself what Jones could have died of, and the one answer that occurred to him was old age. One day, walking down some street in Brooklyn, Antonio Jones had felt tired, sat down on the sidewalk, and a second later stopped existing.
- Roberto Bolaño
2666
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
- William Goodman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Awareness of mortality exerts a unique power to focus the mind and heart on essentials.
- Columba Stewart
Prayer and Community: The Benedictine Tradition
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Few deaths can match the refined agony of being the one left behind
- Tana French
In the Woods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe that to be the world's greatest living
writer
there must be something
terribly wrong with you.
I don't even want to be the world's greatest
dead writer.
just being dead would be fair
enough.
- Charles Bukowski
You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
And a soul would run by a living being, touch them softly on the shoulder or cheek, and continue on its way to heaven. The dead are never exactly seen by the living, but many people seem acutely aware of something changed around them. They speak of a chill in the air. The mates of the deceased wake from dreams and see a figure standing at the end of their bed, or in a doorway, or boarding, phantomlike, a city bus.
- Alice Sebold
The Lovely Bones
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Bubba then grabbed a hold of my leg and his eyes got all cloudy and that terrible pink sky seem to drain all the colour in his face.
He was trying to say something, and so I bent over real close to hear what it was. But I never could make it out. So I asked the medic, ' You hear what he say?'
And the medic say, 'Home. He said, home.'
Bubba, he died, and that's all I got to say about that.
- Winston Groom
Forrest Gump
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?
- Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
- Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I don't want to die without any scars.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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