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“His death was imminent and we were all anticipating it, including him, but we never gave any thought to the fact that this was true for all of us, too: our death was imminent, only we were not anticipating it ... yet.”
Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Brother (1997)
“As the audience cheers for Andrea, she heads toward the stage's exit, snaking around Carson Dunst. "Pardon me," she says, trading winks with the next president of the United States. Then she basks in the chants for the death of Death-Cast, knowing she has played her role in destroying their reputation, but the true destruction is yet to come.”
Adam Silvera (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…New York. Invisible New Yorkers. Folks that aren’t talked about in the theatre as much. Love. Instead of love it’s more like service. Service to one another. Death always seems to follow every show I do. It’s really life and death…”
Nilaja Sun first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the recurrent themes in her works in “An Interview with Nilaja Sun” in The Interval (2015 Dec 1)
“It’s bigger than death, Aubry.” “You’re wrong,” he said, his voice utterly chill. “Nothing is bigger than death.”
Steven Barnes (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am hopeful for black futures. And I say that because we live in a society that's so obsessed with black death. We have images of our death on the TV screen, on our Twitter timelines, on our Facebook timelines, but what if instead we imagine black life? We imagine black people living and thriving. And that -- that inspires me.”
Patrisse Cullors (born 1984) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter, Ted Talks, (October 2016)
“See, I don't know what context he said it in. But, at times, the wrong people are awarded the death penalty. Boys do it in josh (Hindi: excitement), but what can I say in this? The death sentence should be given. I won't speak against Islam.”
Abu Azmi (born 1955) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: mid-day. 11 April 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
“Death of Auliya Allah, in true sense is the death of their lower-self. When it is annihilated, he gets eternal life.”
Mian Mir (1550–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Spiritual power of Auliya Allah in worldly life and in the hereafter is alike. Rather after death it is more intensified because in worldly life, corporal being and states are impediments which after death are eliminated. It is like a sword without dheath which is more effective in action.”
Mian Mir (1550–1635) said by 1635 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My attitude towards death has changed a lot in recent years. I can easily accept my own death - it is not difficult. It's hard to lose someone.”
Chulpan Khamatova (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When a person loves another very much, she greatly wished to meet that person. Why then should I be afraid of death? Death brings us to God.”
Josephine Bakhita (1868–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The will must not only despise death, it must love it; for chastity is the love of death.”
Philipp Mainländer (1841–1876) said by 1876 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Philosophie der Erlösung, Erster Band (2014), Ethik, § 26
“Low entropy states are not closer to death. Death is characterized by dissipation, decay and dispersion. It is the ultimate high entropy state—literally, the edge of our existential world, when we are gently absorbed back into the universe.”
Karl J. Friston (born 1959) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of woodlice and men: A Bayesian account of cognition, life and consciousness. An interview with Karl Friston (2018)
“We'll go to heaven. Death is the end of one earthly path and the beginning of another. Don’t let fear of death influence decisions.”
Vladimir Solovyov (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“TV didn’t show the places around New Orleans. So driving across the bridge on Lake Pontchartrain, you have to go through a swamp, and everything that was so green all of my life was brown and stinky. And it was just death. I’d never smelled death like that. Everything died. The salt water intrusion killed all the vegetation in the swamp that you have to drive through.”
Colette Pichon Battle wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You should not desire, he knows, the death of any human creature. Death is your prince, you are not his patron; when you think he is engaged elsewhere, he will batter down your door, walk in and wipe his boots on you.”
Hilary Mantel (1952–2022) first seen 1535 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Part 1, Section 3, “Angels. Christmas 1535 – New Year 1536” (pp. 135-136)
“...You go to Indonesia, carry drugs, do cultism and come begging to be rescued from death sentence. Thank God for @ndlea_nigeria now saving people like you from death row.”
Abike Dabiri (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After her husband’s death the widow had behaved as if she neither heard nor saw a thing. Stronger than pain or sorrow was the feeling she had of a numbing chill and a dull lassitude in both her body and soul, as if she herself were bleeding to death from his mortal wounds.”
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until we overcome our fear about talking about death, few of us can have the end of life we envision. We've been so focused on living and accomplishing and moving forward that we don't think about death as part of life.”
Diane Rehm (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through death, new forms are born. Even when it looks like something is diminishing or disappearing, it gives way to a whole new force. Death is always necessary for change to occur and for new life to come.”
Nnenna Okore (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my case, I was kicked off the SNP frontbench for speaking up for women's rights and for lesbian rights. And I've also received rape and death threats, as is a matter of public record. I've had no public support from my political party, despite those rape and death threats. So, I think many parliamentarians are just trying to keep out of this debate because they’re afraid to speak up.”
Joanna Cherry (born 1966) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by Lewis McKenzie "Cherry: 'No public support from SNP despite rape and death threats'" STV (22 December 2022)
“The scientific denial of immortality is based upon the admitted fact of the connection between mind and brain; whence it is assumed that the death of the brain must involve the death of that, whatever it be, which has been called the soul. This may indeed be true; but it is not necessarily or obviously true; it does not follow logically from the fact of the connection.”
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1862–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am no longer afraid of death. A longing for death even arises. Still, I would like to be able to say before the end of the year: enough is enough.”
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem (1945–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to let them know it is not death that a person should fear, but they should fear never stepping out to live. Death is not the biggest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us when we’re still alive.”
Esther Akoth (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is it going to take to build a system that affirms life for everyone that’s not built on the death of other people and the death of the environment and other species? This is what’s being asked of us and it means we all have to look at whatever privilege we have and who sacrificed for that.”
Dina Gilio-Whitaker wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ultimate prize in the fight for freedom for my country is death. Many have been murdered. Many have disappeared and we don't know where they are. So the ultimate prize is death.”
Stella Nyanzi (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yes! The death of my husband. I was only 27 and just two years in my marriage and when my son was still very young. It really brought me down. Then came the death of my dad weeks after my swearing-in as deputy governor. It was not easy losing all the people I love in my life so soon.”
Dorothy Nditi (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus is nowhere in the Talmud said to have been executed by the Romans; his death is represented as solely the work of the Jews: and nowhere is his alleged Messiahship mentioned, not even as a reason for putting him to death.”
G. A. Wells (1926–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When two brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their property and also when two grasshoppers fight to the death, it is the crow which gets to feast.”
Rita Tani Iddi (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a Muslim who believes in power of death and life. I also know that life and death are in the hand of God”
Turia Yar'Adua (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have in our midst someone who is supposed to be a living god, one who is omnipotent and omniscient, an emperor who is supposed to realize the will of the gods. Yet his children are crying because of hunger, suffocating to death in the coal mines, and being crushed to death in factory machines. Why is this so? Because, in truth, the emperor is a mere human being.”
Kaneko Fumiko (1903–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the community of today: a community of faith that, after having experienced such tragic moments, bears witness to the hope of the risen Christ: precisely because we are facing death, persecution, death of the atomic bomb, and from these shocking events, we have risen again, there is hope in our hearts, yes, recovery, rebirth, thanks to the work of God.”
Peter Michiaki Nakamura (born 1962) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catholics in Nagasaki witness the Resurrection (24 April 2024) Fides News Agency
“We really hope this great Pope – great in life, great in suffering, great in death – will, even after his death, live on in our hearts, because there is a new generation who only know him through books and through pictures, we have to give testimony to his life and suffering so that people can know the good that John Paul II did for sick people.”
Zygmunt Zimowski (1949–2016) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vatican conference examines Bl. John Paul’s suffering (22 November 2011) Catholic News Agency
“Death must take place in the heart to be believed in. After love dies man believes in his death.”
Taiye Selasi (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't speak like that, my child. Death is sweet, we think. But it is easier to talk of it, than to welcome it. We do not know what is on the other side, whether it is better or worse than here. Whereas even at its most bitter, life offers hope at least, which death does not.”
Femi Osofisan (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thought I would be of help to mankind, and I told my family my intention to donate organs after my death. If someone can see through my eyes, or use my kidney to live longer, I think this would be a service to God. One can serve God and humanity even after death.”
Agnelo Rufino Gracias (born 1939) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donating organs is a service to God and humanity (2 January 2017) Fides News Agency
“Someone has said From the day we draw breath Until life be sped Two things are certain: Taxes and death. From the rise of the curtain, On life's dreary round, As hope wanes or waxes, Man ever found Two things are certain: Taxes and death— Especially taxes.”
C. J. Dennis (1876–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Taxes", in Random Verse (1952)
“The story of European settlement is the story of aboriginal decay, decimation and death, for the first chapters were written together, and each section as written up to the present has revealed marvellous progress running on contemporaneously with lamentable deterioration, rapid decay, and fast following death—the black man falling as the white man rose.”
Charles White (writer) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Story of the Blacks: The Aborigines of Australia, Ch. 38, as serialised in the Windsor and Richmond Gazette (commencing 30 April 1904); an earlier version had been published in the Bathurst Free Press and Mining Jou…
“The number one benefit of having pure faith and belief is not having the fear of death. Those who have the fear of death should be considered weak in terms of faith.”
Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria (born 1969) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 11.05.2025, Al Ihsan International Institute Inaugural Ceremony, Dhaka
“I have a rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade, When Spring comes round with rustling shade And apple blossoms fill the air— I have a rendezvous with Death When Spring brings back blue days and fair.”
Alan Seeger (1888–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I Have a Rendezvous with Death (1917)
“Your birth is my birth; your death is my death.”
Weruche Opia (born 1987) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I May Destroy You’s Weruche Opia Almost Said No to Michaela Coel VANITY FAIR, 17 July 2020.
“For truth and death are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them. And truth is like death in that it kills. When I killed I did it with truth not with a knife. That is why they are afraid and in a hurry to execute me. They do not fear my knife. It is my truth that frightens them.”
Nawal El Tatawy (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many accused persons have been tried and sentenced to death only to be revealed later that they were innocent. So, death penalty is unlawful, a violation of the right to life, and the right not to be subjected to inhumane and degrading punishment.”
Vera Chirwa (born 1932) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vera for women space,against death penaltyNational Online(December 7, 2023)
“This day relenting God Hath placed within my hand A wondrous thing; and God Be praised. At his command, Seeking His secret deeds With tears and toiling breath, I find thy cunning seeds, O million-murdering Death. I know this little thing A myriad men will save, O Death, where is thy sting? Thy victory, O Grave?”
Ronald Ross (1857–1932) first seen 1897 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Exile", pt. 7 (21 August 1897), Philosophies (London: J. Murray, 1910)
“Sunday last a soldier of Co. "A" died and was buried with military honors. ... Everything went on as usual in camp as if nothing had happened, for death is so common that little sentiment is wasted. It is not like death at home.”
Elisha Hunt Rhodes (1842–1917) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Near Downsville, Maryland (September 30, 1862)
“Burning from the inside out Bloody foam spews from your mouth Smell the putrid stench of flesh As it burns you to your death [...] The rancid smell of burning hair Screaming in excruciating pain Blood boils over, warping veins Burnt skull collapses onto melting brains Spontaneous death, up in flames Twisting and writhing as life burns away Until nothing is left but charred remains”
Chris Reifert (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to [his] fellow Christians to end the death penalty. An eye for an eye was used as justification to the jury for seeking the death penalty. Why? Because we no longer live under the Old Testament law but now live under the New Testament. [...] We are now under God's grace and mercy.”
Brad Sigmon (1957–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ultimately, Satan is interested in snatching souls away from God, and he does not want to take possession of the body just to lead it to spiritual death, which is far worse than physical death.”
Matteo La Grua (1914–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Victor Hugo was a passionate observer, partial to death scenes. He had an appetite for extinction, a man sure to be on hand at the sound of a death rattle or the passing of a funeral procession.”
Helen Bevington (1906–2001) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Along Came the Witch: A Journal in the 1960's (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), p. 201
“Look, this is life, this is life and death ... theology really is life and death.”
David Koresh (1959–1993) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Talking to Larry Lynch, February 28, 1993, quoted in Gallagher 1999, p. 27, Gallagher 2000, p. 82
“Faced with death, one cannot help but cry... Crying is suffering in the face of true evil, and what is more true than death?”
Giovanni Reale (1931–2014) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Corriere della Sera, 26 January 2010