Death Quotes

The one certainty. These quotes face mortality with wisdom, humor, and grace.

11604 quotes

"I have never feared death; I have only feared irrelevance."
Catherine de Medici
"I realized that mortality is the greatest equalizer ever created."
Catherine de Medici
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"Death is not an end but a transformation, a return home."
Marsilio Ficino
M
"Death is the initiation into a fuller life, not its negation."
Marsilio Ficino
"Death reminds us of life's brevity and thus of the importance of virtue."
Giambattista Vico
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"To understand death is to understand life."
Giambattista della Porta
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"In the face of death, life becomes infinitely precious."
Pico della Mirandola
P
"In death's contemplation, life's meaning becomes clear."
Pico della Mirandola
"The dying leave behind memories; the living leave behind legacies."
Catherine de Medici
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"Death is not an end, but a transition; our legacy lives on through our influence."
Isabella d'Este
M
"The body ages, but the soul remains eternally young."
Marsilio Ficino
M
"The body is temporary, but the work of the soul is eternal."
Marsilio Ficino
A
"Death is not an ending, but a transformation and return."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
P
"Death, far from being life's antithesis, gives life its urgency and meaning."
Pico della Mirandola
G
"Death is not the end of life but the completion of a chapter in eternity."
Giambattista della Porta
E
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
Edward Wotton
E
"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."
Edward Wotton
N
"Death is not an end, but a transformation."
Nicodemus Copernicus
G
"Death is not the end but a transition."
Girolamo Savonarola
"The dead speak only through the living."
Giambattista Vico
A
"In the face of death, we are reminded of the preciousness of each moment."
Agrippa Heinrich Cornelius
C
"The glory of the world passes away."
Cosimo de Medici
E
"Death reminds us that life is not a rehearsal."
Edward Wotton
E
"Death teaches us the value of every moment we are given."
Edward Wotton
C
"Death is not the end of a man; it is the judgment of his life."
Cosimo de Medici
G
"Those who fear death have not yet learned to live."
Girolamo Savonarola
E
"To accept our mortality is to embrace our humanity fully."
Edward Wotton
E
"Death reminds us what truly matters in life."
Edward Wotton
C
"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."
Cosimo de Medici
P
"Whosoever is born must die; all that comes together must separate."
Paracelsus