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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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It kills me sometimes, how people die.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours
- Kinky Friedman
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The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
- Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood
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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
- Thomas Campbell
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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
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Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor
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I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.
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From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
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I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold.
And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
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... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it."

"Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'"

"Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo.

"The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..."

"... is Locke ..."

"... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..."

"... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.
- Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora
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Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.
- Terry Pratchett
Interesting Times
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If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
- Clifford Odets
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Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.
- Robyn Schneider
The Beginning of Everything
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In the midst of life, we are in death.
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
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Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
- Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
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The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
- Bill Hicks
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Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
- Milan Kundera
Laughable Loves
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It kills me sometimes, how people die.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours
- Kinky Friedman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
- Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
- Thomas Campbell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold.
And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it."

"Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'"

"Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo.

"The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..."

"... is Locke ..."

"... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..."

"... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.
- Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.
- Terry Pratchett
Interesting Times
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
- Clifford Odets
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.
- Robyn Schneider
The Beginning of Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the midst of life, we are in death.
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
- Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
- Bill Hicks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
- Milan Kundera
Laughable Loves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It kills me sometimes, how people die.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours
- Kinky Friedman
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
- J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
- Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
- Thomas Campbell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.
- Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Survivor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I went down to the river,
I set down on the bank.
I tried to think but couldn't,
So I jumped in and sank.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH
I do not carry a sickle or scythe.
I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold.
And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.
- Markus Zusak
The Book Thief
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it."

"Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'"

"Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo.

"The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..."

"... is Locke ..."

"... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..."

"... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.
- Scott Lynch
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.
- Terry Pratchett
Interesting Times
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.
- Clifford Odets
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.
- Robyn Schneider
The Beginning of Everything
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In the midst of life, we are in death.
- Agatha Christie
And Then There Were None
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
- Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
- Bill Hicks
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
- Milan Kundera
Laughable Loves
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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