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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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The dead are way more organized than the living.
- China Miéville
Un Lun Dun
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I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
- Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
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I am so often moved by souls whose first concern is not for their own lost years, but for the grief their passing will cause to those they love. It's more common than you might think. The most ordinary mortal bodies are housed by spectacular souls.
- Julie Berry
Lovely War
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И все по-ясно виждам, че нашият свят ще загине от алчността си.
- Dimitar Dimov
Тютюн
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What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly.
"Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.
- Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn
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But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present."
Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it.
"Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response."
"Oh, do you give flowers often?"
"Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly.
Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.
- Laini Taylor
Days of Blood & Starlight
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Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor, and for all one's efforts, it could be stolen in an instant.
- Danielle L. Jensen
Stolen Songbird
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Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
- Neil Gaiman
American Gods
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I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
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But why can't the language for creativity be the language of regeneration? You killed that poem, we say. You're a killer. You came into that novel guns blazing. I am hammering this paragraph, I am banging them out, we say. I owned that workshop. I shut it down. I crushed them. We smashed the competition. I'm wrestling with the muse. The state, where people live, is a battleground state. The audience a target audience. "Good for you, man" a man once said to me at a party, "you're making a killing with poetry. You're knockin' em dead.
- Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.
- Jonathan Stroud
The Whispering Skull
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I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
- S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This Is Now
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When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Death doesn’t conquer all; love does. Love wins every single time. Love wins by lasting through death. Love wins by loving more, loving again, loving without fear.
- Kate O'Neill
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What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
- Lauren Oliver
Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven
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Aaron anticipated the application of some kind of healing balm, but to his surprise the healer started singing a soft melodic tune. The breath from the notes fell on Aaron’s injured arm and he felt the hairs on his forearm react to the soft breath. It was only moments before the song drifted away on the wind and Wonataban’s instruction followed the last note: “Open your eyes.
- Robert Reid
The Empress:
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It's not easy losing someone," she said. "It never goes away, does it?" "The Phantom Pain, they call it," I said. "Like amputees get when they can still feel their missing limbs.
- John Boyne
The Heart's Invisible Furies
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Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
- J.K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
- Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels
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The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.
- Daina Chaviano
The Island of Eternal Love
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Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.
- David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
- Arthur Schnitzler
Selected Short Fiction
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Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.
- R.A. Salvatore
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The dead are way more organized than the living.
- China Miéville
Un Lun Dun
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I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
- Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
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I am so often moved by souls whose first concern is not for their own lost years, but for the grief their passing will cause to those they love. It's more common than you might think. The most ordinary mortal bodies are housed by spectacular souls.
- Julie Berry
Lovely War
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И все по-ясно виждам, че нашият свят ще загине от алчността си.
- Dimitar Dimov
Тютюн
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What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly.
"Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.
- Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present."
Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it.
"Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response."
"Oh, do you give flowers often?"
"Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly.
Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.
- Laini Taylor
Days of Blood & Starlight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor, and for all one's efforts, it could be stolen in an instant.
- Danielle L. Jensen
Stolen Songbird
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Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
- Neil Gaiman
American Gods
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I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But why can't the language for creativity be the language of regeneration? You killed that poem, we say. You're a killer. You came into that novel guns blazing. I am hammering this paragraph, I am banging them out, we say. I owned that workshop. I shut it down. I crushed them. We smashed the competition. I'm wrestling with the muse. The state, where people live, is a battleground state. The audience a target audience. "Good for you, man" a man once said to me at a party, "you're making a killing with poetry. You're knockin' em dead.
- Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.
- Jonathan Stroud
The Whispering Skull
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I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
- S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This Is Now
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Death doesn’t conquer all; love does. Love wins every single time. Love wins by lasting through death. Love wins by loving more, loving again, loving without fear.
- Kate O'Neill
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What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
- Lauren Oliver
Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aaron anticipated the application of some kind of healing balm, but to his surprise the healer started singing a soft melodic tune. The breath from the notes fell on Aaron’s injured arm and he felt the hairs on his forearm react to the soft breath. It was only moments before the song drifted away on the wind and Wonataban’s instruction followed the last note: “Open your eyes.
- Robert Reid
The Empress:
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It's not easy losing someone," she said. "It never goes away, does it?" "The Phantom Pain, they call it," I said. "Like amputees get when they can still feel their missing limbs.
- John Boyne
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
- J.K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
- Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.
- Daina Chaviano
The Island of Eternal Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.
- David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
- Arthur Schnitzler
Selected Short Fiction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.
- R.A. Salvatore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The dead are way more organized than the living.
- China Miéville
Un Lun Dun
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
- Robert Jordan
The Fires of Heaven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I am so often moved by souls whose first concern is not for their own lost years, but for the grief their passing will cause to those they love. It's more common than you might think. The most ordinary mortal bodies are housed by spectacular souls.
- Julie Berry
Lovely War
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
И все по-ясно виждам, че нашият свят ще загине от алчността си.
- Dimitar Dimov
Тютюн
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?" she asked quietly.
"Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury," he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little.
- Melina Marchetta
Quintana of Charyn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present."
Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it.
"Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response."
"Oh, do you give flowers often?"
"Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly.
Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.
- Laini Taylor
Days of Blood & Starlight
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor, and for all one's efforts, it could be stolen in an instant.
- Danielle L. Jensen
Stolen Songbird
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead
- Neil Gaiman
American Gods
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
But why can't the language for creativity be the language of regeneration? You killed that poem, we say. You're a killer. You came into that novel guns blazing. I am hammering this paragraph, I am banging them out, we say. I owned that workshop. I shut it down. I crushed them. We smashed the competition. I'm wrestling with the muse. The state, where people live, is a battleground state. The audience a target audience. "Good for you, man" a man once said to me at a party, "you're making a killing with poetry. You're knockin' em dead.
- Ocean Vuong
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it.
- Jonathan Stroud
The Whispering Skull
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
- S.E. Hinton
That Was Then, This Is Now
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
- Walter M. Miller Jr.
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Death doesn’t conquer all; love does. Love wins every single time. Love wins by lasting through death. Love wins by loving more, loving again, loving without fear.
- Kate O'Neill
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
- Lauren Oliver
Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Aaron anticipated the application of some kind of healing balm, but to his surprise the healer started singing a soft melodic tune. The breath from the notes fell on Aaron’s injured arm and he felt the hairs on his forearm react to the soft breath. It was only moments before the song drifted away on the wind and Wonataban’s instruction followed the last note: “Open your eyes.
- Robert Reid
The Empress:
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's not easy losing someone," she said. "It never goes away, does it?" "The Phantom Pain, they call it," I said. "Like amputees get when they can still feel their missing limbs.
- John Boyne
The Heart's Invisible Furies
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance
- J.K. Rowling
The Casual Vacancy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
- Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.
- Daina Chaviano
The Island of Eternal Love
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just when normal life felt almost possible - when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.
- David Wroblewski
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them.
- Arthur Schnitzler
Selected Short Fiction
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.
- R.A. Salvatore
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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