67 Notable Quotes About Death

Death is an inevitable part of the human experience, a profound subject that touches every life. Throughout history, philosophers, writers, and thought leaders have grappled with its significance, offering reflections that range from consoling to thought-provoking. In this curated collection of 67 notable quotes about death, you'll find a diverse array of perspectives that illuminate our understanding of life's final chapter. Whether seeking comfort, insight, or a deeper contemplation, these quotes stand as a testament to humanity's enduring quest to make sense of the unknown.

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 have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever. Close your eyes, let your hands and nerve-ends drop, stop breathing for 3 seconds, listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, which was taught in immense milky way soft cloud innumerable worlds long ago and not even at all. It is all one vast awakened thing. I call it the golden eternity. It is perfect. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended. There's nothing to be afraid of and nothing to be glad about. I know this from staring at mountains months on end. They never show any expression, they are like empty space. Do you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.” - Jack Kerouac

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

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

5. “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

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

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

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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “I loved the flowers that die, I loved the charm of the sky.” - Santosh Kalwar

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. “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

20. “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

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

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

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

24. “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

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

26. “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

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

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

29. “One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.” - Mike Norton

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. “I'm scared to die," I whispered as Michael walked in."He was scared to live," he said kissing my forehead.” - Melina Marchetta

38. “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

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

40. “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

41. “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

42. “Yeah! Bring it on lake!” - Rick Riordan

43. “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

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

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

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

47. “Looking at her in the hospital he had thought, I don't know you, who you are, does it matter if we live or die?” - Ray Bradbury

48. “There is no honor in sending men to die for something you won't even fight for yourself” - Mark Owen

49. “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

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

51. “... we sat back and let the moon shine itself all over her, and we saw that Tia was full of light. Billy said that when we die the darkness leaves us.'We're pure and perfect then,' he said, 'the way we are when we're born.” - Glenda Millard

52. “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

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

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

55. “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

56. “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

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

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

59. “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

60. “Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did care, and very deeply, and so for the first time in a long time he was afraid. To love life is, of course, a wonderful thing, but not on this day of all days.” - Paul Hoffman

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

62. “Live full, die empty” - Les Brown

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

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

65. “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

66. “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

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