63 Quotes About Death

Death is a universal experience that touches every life, shedding light on the profound and often complex emotions associated with it. Whether grappling with loss, seeking solace, or finding meaning, the words of thinkers, writers, and philosophers offer a comforting perspective on this inevitable part of the human journey. In this collection, we present 63 poignant and thought-provoking quotes about death, each chosen for its ability to resonate deeply and provide insight. Join us as we explore these reflections, from somber to uplifting, offering a diverse tapestry of thoughts that honor both the sadness and the beauty that can be found in the cycle of life and death.

1. “Let me die the moment my love dies. Let me not outlive my own capacity to love. Let me die still loving, and so, never die.” - Mary Zimmerman

2. “I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.” - Ayn Rand

3. “Gaara: Can Sasuke come out to Die? Kakashi: Not Now.Gaara:.............Gaara: How 'bout now?” - Masashi Kishimoto

4. “A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted."No, Mabry," Ravus said. "I am not." He looked in Val's direction. "I think she wants to die."Maybe you can help her after all," Mabry said. "You're good at helping people die.” - Holly Black

5. “For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.” - Aeschylus

6. “What happens if a car comes? We die.” - Nicholas Sparks

7. “But, as I say, I was toofull of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have neverknown danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.” - H.G. Wells

8. “Vielleicht muss es im Leben eines Schriftstellers diesen Augenblick geben, in dem ein anderer Schriftsteller beschuldigt wird, seinen Beruf verfehlt zu haben.” - John Irving

9. “You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again.""I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time.""I've been thinking about you, too.""I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.""I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.” - Cassandra Clare

10. “Think about this: You don't know when these people are going to die. They could get into a car today and be killed on the way home. Did they ever hear about Jesus? God has put you in their lives to be His ambassador. You're His megaphone, through which He wants to call out to them to come to Him and be saved.” - Ryan Dobson

11. “If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the up button.” - Sam levenson

12. “Could a love of that magnitude die? If it was true love, could it ever die? Was there such a thing as true love?” - Mary Balogh

13. “I will give you anything to say you want to stay, you want me too.Say you'll never die, you'll always haunt me.I want to know I belong to youSay you'll haunt me...” - Stone Sour

14. “This planet is dying. The human rase is killing it. ...If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth survives.” - Arthur Tofte - The Day the Earth Stood Still

15. “When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.” - Nora Ephron

16. “All geniuses die young.” - Groucho Marx

17. “I'm Allen Walker!"My life....is over...I'm going to die....” - Katsura Hoshino

18. “The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.” - Mike Norton

19. “I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.” - Ann Voskamp

20. “When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.” - Will Rogers

21. “And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?” - Robert Fulghum

22. “The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.” - Simon Van Booy

23. “And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.” - Fábio Moon

24. “if he goes and dies on me now, I know I'll go completely insane.” - Suzanne Collins

25. “Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.” - Suzanne Collins

26. “We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.” - Chuck Palahniuk

27. “I understand that if you have never suffered a broken heart, then you have never really known what it is to truly be alive. And I understand that at that precise moment, when your heart breaks open, that all you want to do is lay down and die! Because you know that is the only way the pain is ever going to stop.” - Patti Roberts

28. “I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should.” - John Green

29. “To die hating them, that was freedom.” - George Orwell

30. “You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!” - Ridley Pearson

31. “I was just walking around saying “We’re all gonna die!” I never got over it. I went to class, I did what I had to do, but I was a gibbering idiot. It never went away. I never again felt the same way about life and death.” - Anne Rice

32. “Even from just a little thing, it's still possible to die.” - Clamp

33. “Then the voice - which identified itself as the prince of this world, the only being who really knows what happens on Earth - began to show him the people around him on the beach. The wonderful father who was busy packing things up and helping his children put on some warm clothes and who would love to have an affair with his secretary, but was terrified on his wife's response. His wife who would like to work and have her independence, but who was terrified of her husband's response. The children who behave themselves because they were terrified of being punished. The girl who was reading a book all on her own beneath the sunshade, pretending she didn't care, but inside was terrified of spending the rest of her life alone. The boy running around with a tennis racuqet , terrified of having to live up to his parents' expectations. The waiter serving tropical drinks to the rich customers and terrified that he could be sacket at any moment. The young girl who wanted to be a dance, but who was studying law instead because she was terrified of what the neighbours might say. The old man who didn't smoke or drink and said he felt much better for it, when in truth it was the terror of death what whispered in his ears like the wind. The married couple who ran by, splashing through the surf, with a smile on their face but with a terror in their hearts telling them that they would soon be old, boring and useless. The man with the suntan who swept up in his launch in front of everybody and waved and smiled, but was terrified because he could lose all his money from one moment to the next. The hotel owner, watching the whole idyllic scene from his office, trying to keep everyone happy and cheerful, urging his accountants to ever greater vigilance, and terrified because he knew that however honest he was government officials would still find mistakes in his accounts if they wanted to. There was terror in each and every one of the people on that beautiful beach and on that breathtakingly beautiful evening. Terror of being alone, terror of the darkness filling their imaginations with devils, terror of doing anything not in the manuals of good behaviour, terror of God's punishing any mistake, terror of trying and failing, terror of succeeding and having to live with the envy of other people, terror of loving and being rejected, terror of asking for a rise in salary, of accepting an invitation, of going somewhere new, of not being able to speak a foreign language, of not making the right impression, of growing old, of dying, of being pointed out because of one's defects, of not being pointed out because of one's merits, of not being noticed either for one's defects of one's merits.” - Paulo Coelho

34. “But that was New Orleans for you. The old didn’t die here. They were just forgotten.” - Amanda Stevens

35. “We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.” - L.M. Montgomery

36. “Mrs. Winalski owned a candy-apple-red 1965 Mustang GT convertible, and she drove it like she could die at any minute and needed to get five things done before that happened.” - Lish McBride

37. “Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,The bridal of the earth and sky;The dew shall weep thy fall tonight,For thou must die.” - George Herbert

38. “Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.” - Marcus Aurelius

39. “Once you kill all of us, and you're alone, you'll die! The hate will die. That hate is what moves you, nothing else! That envy moves you. Nothing else! You'll die, inevitably. You're not immortal. You're not even alive, you're nothing but moving hate.” - Ray Bradbury

40. “They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.” - Lauren Oliver

41. “One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.” - Kelli Jae Baeli

42. “Every living thing requires love to survive for without it, we die.” - Sanjo Jendayi

43. “A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it.” - Susie Clevenger

44. “I hope there are zombie sharks in there and they bite you and you die!” - Lia Habel

45. “What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose.Drinking and smoking over and overWhat's so great about a life that's sober?There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.I'm tired of searching for words in the sky.All I wanna do is drink and die. Nothing is real. It's all a big lie. All I wanna do is drink and die. There's nothing cool about being youngWhen the monsters of night have stolen the sun.” - Benjamin Alire Saenz

46. “We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.” - Mark Lawrence

47. “There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.” - P.C. Cast Kristin Cast

48. “The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.” - Harper Lee

49. “Live Like a Raj Thakare and Die Like a Balasaheb Thakare.” - Sagar Ugale

50. “Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears.” - Amit Abraham

51. “I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed to me that this was not a place you go to live. It was a place you go to die.” - John Green

52. “Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry.” - Anthony Liccione

53. “ Valerie Sherwood, I said to myself, you're going to die. ” - Debra Doyle

54. “Get on your feet or die.” - Paul Hoffman

55. “Jesus Christ came not to condemn you but to save you, knowing your name, knowing all about you, knowing your weight right now, knowing your age, knowing what you do, knowing where you live, knowing what you ate for supper and what you will eat for breakfast, where you will sleep tonight, how much your clothing cost, who your parents were. He knows you individually as though there were not another person in the entire world. He died for you as certainly as if you had been the only lost one. He knows the worst about you and is the One who loves you the most. If you are out of the fold and away from God, put your name in the words of John 3:16 and say, “Lord, it is I. I’m the cause and reason why Thou didst on earth come to die.” That kind of positive, personal faith and a personal Redeemer is what saves you. If you will just rush in there, you do not have to know all the theology and all the right words. You can say, “I am the one He came to die for.” Write it down in your heart and say, “Jesus, this is me—Thee and me,” as though there were no others. Have that kind of personalized belief in a personal Lord and Savior.” - A.W. Tozer

56. “It is better to die, than dive heart-first, into a pool of love, only knee-high deep.” - Anthony Liccione

57. “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.” - Paul Hoffman

58. “the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.” - Charles Bukowski

59. “Preach the Gospel, die, and be forgotten.” - Count of Zinzendorf

60. “The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.” - John Green

61. “History has to live with what was here,clutching and close to fumbling all we had -it is so dull and gruesome how we die,unlike writing, life never finishes.” - Robert Lowell

62. “Here have I come to die,' he said, 'and where else could I ask to die but in your arms?” - Roger Lancelyn Green

63. “Everyday as we die, we must be reborn. If there were no death, life would be meaningless.” - Boep Joeng