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Death Quotes

Last updated: September 24, 2024

401 Death Quotes organized by Most Popular

“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn’t know a thing about life.”
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Tagged: Death, Belief, Living, Fear, scary
“I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath.”
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy(The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso)
Tagged: Sadness, Death, Sad, Losing The Will To Live
“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.”
— Terence McKenna, Terence McKenna- You are a Divine Being
Tagged: You're Special, You Are Magic, The Universe Loves You, Going Home, Death, The Return, Inspirational
“Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life.”
— Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting
Tagged: Living, Death, Existing
“They live as if they were never going to die, and die as if they had never lived”
— Paulo Coelho, What is funny about man
Tagged: Life, Living, Dying, Death, purpose, Reason
“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
— David Hume, Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
Tagged: Death, Life, Living
“You see what kills your body but you don’t see what kills your soul.”
— Lacey Sturm, A Quote by Lacey Mosley
Tagged: Death, Pain, Unseen, Unnoticed
“Nobody ever says on their deathbed: ‘I wish I’d spent more time at the office.”
— Geoffrey James, I Nearly Died Last Week. Here’s What I Learned
Tagged: Priorities, Death, Awareness, Life, Values
“Life is always better than death. Always. No exceptions.”
— Greer Macallister, The Magician's Lie: A Novel
Tagged: Life, Death
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”
— Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Tagged: Death, Memories, Legacy, Love
“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time? It is even possible to dislike our old selves, those disposable ancestors of ours. For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot.”
— John Updike, Self-Consciousness
Tagged: Death, Change, Personality
“We’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
Tagged: Mortality, Death
“I’m so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”
— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Tagged: Death, Acknowledgment of Others
“...'Die before you die' ― and find that there is no death.”
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
Tagged: Death & Life, Death, Life, Living, Experience, secret in life
“Once you become conscious of death, and experience it, you undertake a new approach to life.”
— Cho Jae-hee, Dying for a better life: South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons
Tagged: Death
“To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
— Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground
Tagged: Death, Loss, Grief, Grievig, After Death, Losing A Loved One
“Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.”
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Tagged: Desire, Death, Sadness, Impatience, Gone, Sad
“Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many times you died this week.”
— Yoko Ono, Twitter
Tagged: Tweet, Death, Deep
“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Tagged: Death, Desire, Attraction, Remembered, Art, Mystery
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.”
— Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Tagged: Death, Life, The Human Condition, Living, Loving Each Other
“We are all our own graveyards, I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were.”
— Clive Barker, Flash Wisdom
Tagged: graveyards, Death, Past
“Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream.”
— Euripides, Herakles
Tagged: separation, Wishful Thinking, Loss, Death, Missing A Loved One, Sad
“The day that I die on will turn me to an icon.”
— Mac Miller, S.D.S.
Tagged: Die, Death, Icon
“I'm not trying to die. I'm just waiting for death to come. Like sitting on a bench at the station, waiting for the train.”
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore
Tagged: Life And Death, living and dying, Death, Life, waiting for death, pointless life, hollow life
“The seeds of life— fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”
— Virgil, The Aeneid: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Tagged: Life, Death, humanity, Earth, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you’re not alone.”
— Kristina McMorris, Letters From Home
Tagged: Death, Love, Crying
“When people die you have to bury them but you do not have to write about it. You do not have to write about an undertake nor all the business of burial. You do not have to write about that day nor the next night of the day after and the night after, and the progress from numbness into sorrow nor all the days after and all the nights after for a life time. In writing you have a certain choice that you do not have in life.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
Tagged: Life, Death
“I’m shocked to hear that you love me, and if I were not to hear it I’d want to die.”
— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
Tagged: Love, Confession, Death, Desire, romance
“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we’re lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”
— Justin Cronin, The Passage
Tagged: Life, Death
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
— Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
Tagged: Imagination, Knowledge, Intelligence, Dreams, Reality, Laughter, Love, Death
“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
— Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
Tagged: goodbye, Death, Sadness, Pain, Leaving
“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
Tagged: Sorrow, Misery, Losing, Experience, Life, Truth, Losing A Loved One, seeing the end, learn, cure, Healing, Death
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.”
— Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass: His Dark Materials
Tagged: Destiny, Fate, Death
“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Tagged: Death, Two sides of stories, Reality, Fantasy, Rumors
“I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”
— Kurt Cobain, Kurt Cobain
Tagged: Passion, Losing Hope, Death, Burn out, Tiredness
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
— Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
Tagged: Death, Fear, Fear Of Death, fear of life, Life
“Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.”
— Selma Lagerlöf, Jerusalem
Tagged: Losing Someone, Love, Death
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events Collection: Books 1-13
Tagged: Series Of Unfortunate Events, Death, Loved Ones, Grief, Shock
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.”
— Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
Tagged: Death, Joy, Happiness
“I'm prepared for one big silence. Now my feet don't touch the ground. How'd I ever end up here?”
— Placebo, Haemoglobin
Tagged: Death, Dying, Molko's Strangest Song
“Throughout the whole of life one must continue to learn to live,’ said Seneca two millennia ago, ‘and what will amaze you even more, throughout life one must learn to die.”
— M. Scott Peck,, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: Life, Death, Grow, Learning
“It isn't just brave that she died for me; it is brave that she did it without announcing it, without hesitation, and without appearing to consider another option.”
— Veronica Roth, Divergent (Divergent Series)
Tagged: Brave, Death, Options
“I’m bored with it all.”
— Winston Churchill, Their last words: From celebrities to criminals
Tagged: Beautiful Last Words, Famous, Death, Boredom
“Please don’t leave me. Please don’t leave me.”
— Chris Farley, Dada’s Boy
Tagged: Beautiful Last Words, Famous, Death, Leaving
“Why do you weep? Did you think I was immortal?”
— King Louis XIV, Deadlines: A Rhapsody on a Theme of Famous and Infamous Last Words
Tagged: Beautiful Last Words, Famous, Death, Immortal, Mortality
“I never dreamt it'd be this way
I've lost any chance for me to say
To say that I miss you, say that I love you
Will someone please tell me I'm okay

I wasn't prepared for what's to come
A life made of memories gone so young
And now I'm regretting all I've done
But in your heart know that I'm with you all along”
— Amber Pacific, Gone So Young
Tagged: Sad, Emo Lyrics, Death
“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
Tagged: Death, Life, Growing, Living, Budding Relationships, Hope
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
— Westley, The Princess Bride
Tagged: Romantic Speeches, Love, romance, Death, True Love
“Make of our hands one hand. Make of our hearts one heart. Make of our vows one last vow. Only death will part us now.”
— Tony, West Side Story
Tagged: Romantic Speeches, Love, romance, Promise, Death, Hearts
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”
— Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Tagged: Death, After Death, Losing A Loved One, Loss, Grief