Death Quotes

Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly.

~ Suzanne Finnamore

When the dead do walk seek water's run,for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest laketo ward the dead and have and make.If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end.

~ Garth Nix

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

~ Garth Nix

My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.

~ Tana French

Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

~ Milan Kundera

He killed himself for wanting to live.

~ Markus Zusak

Death is easy when you've already tried to find it.

~ Pierce Brown

Maybe the only good thing about death is that you never have to relive it. You never have to remember the pain.

~ Pittacus Lore

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.'Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

~ Toni Morrison

There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.

~ Suzanne Collins

The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess.

~ John Green

I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.

~ Kresley Cole

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

~ J.k. Rowling

If we knew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories.Fire corrected him, in a whisper. The good memories.

~ Kristin Cashore

You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.

~ Thomas Harris

Sometimes dead is better

~ Stephen King

Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?

~ Peter S. Beagle

The first kiss can be as terrifying as the last.

~ Daína Chaviano

Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.

~ Virginia Woolf

Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, 'How do you bear it?'Finnick looks at me in disbelief. 'I don't, Katniss! Obviously, I don't. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.'Something in my expression stops him.'Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself together as it does to fall apart.'Well, he must know. I take a deep breath, forcing myself back into one piece.

~ Suzanne Collins

If it means my death, I don't care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.

~ Catherine Fisher

Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they were so unhappy. She had always thought that a very romantic idea, but she’d dismissed it as a pure invention of the world of books. All those wilting heroes and heroines who suddenly gave up the ghost just because of unrequited love or longing for something they’d lost! Elinor had always enjoyed their sufferings—as a reader will. After all, that was what you wanted from books: great emotions you’d never felt yourself, pain you could leave behind by closing the book if it got too bad. Death and destruction felt deliciously real conjured up with the right words, and you could leave them behind between the pages as you pleased, at no cost or risk to yourself.

~ Cornelia Funke

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy, when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

~ Michael Landon Jr.

Men die. It's practically what they're for.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.

~ Kristin Cast

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

~ Joanne Harris

HangedI hung myself today. Hanged? Whatever,the point is I hanged myself today and I’m stillhanging.I feel fine. Just bored. I keep hoping thatsomeone will come home and cut me downbut then I keep remembering that if I knewsomeone like that I wouldn’t be up here. Bitironic, right? Or is that not ironic? I readsomewhere that, like, anything funny is,in some way, ironic. But I don’t know if it'sfunny or not. I don’t think my brain owns“funny”, you know?I feel taller. I like that.I’ve never been away from my shadow forthis long. It had always clung to my feet,parting momentarily for a quick dive intothe swimming pool. But never for fivehours. I like it. There’s three feet of spacebetween my two and the floor.I wanted something this morning. I may bestuck. But at least I’m three feet closer to it.

~ Bo Burnham

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.

~ Stephen King

Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.

~ Oscar Wilde

I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.

~ Paulo Coelho

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

~ Jasper Fforde

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times.

~ Dean Smith

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

Each of the dancers took a partner, the living with the dead, each to each. Bod reached out his hand and found himself touching fingers with, and gazing into the grey eyes of, the lady in the cobweb dress. She smiled at him.“Hello, Bod,” she said.“Hello,” he said, as he danced with her. “I don’t know your name.”“Names aren’t really important,” she said.“I love your horse. He’s so big! I never knew horses could be that big.”“He is gentle enough to bear the mightiest of you away on his broad back, and strong enough for the smallest of you as well.”“Can I ride him?” asked Bod.“One day,” she told him, and her cobweb skirts shimmered. “One day. Everybody does.”“Promise?”I promise.

~ Neil Gaiman

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.

~ The Nightvale Podcast

The evil that men do lives after them,The good is oft interred with their bones.

~ William Shakespeare

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

~ R.a. Salvatore