Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will instruct you at the moment."
Michel de Montaigne
"To die for a cause is easy; to live for it requires far greater courage."
Thomas More
"The contemplation of death clarifies what is truly worth living for."
Thomas More
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"Death teaches us the value of every moment."
Giordano Bruno
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"Death is the teacher of value."
Giordano Bruno
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"Mortality teaches us that our duty is to advance understanding for those unborn."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"In contemplating our mortality, we find the incentive for immortal works."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"Death itself is no evil."
Desiderius Erasmus
"Death itself is but a natural passage, not a calamity."
Thomas More
"Death teaches us the value of life lived well."
Thomas More
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"If you do not know how to die, do not worry; Nature will instruct you at the moment."
Michel de Montaigne
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"We should prepare for death before we are in want of preparation."
Michel de Montaigne
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"What we call death is merely transformation."
Giordano Bruno
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"To face death without fear is to live without limits."
Giordano Bruno
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"Death teaches us the value of the moment."
Giordano Bruno
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"Death teaches us how to truly live."
Niccolò Copernicus
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"Death is the period that gives meaning to life's sentence."
Niccolò Copernicus
"The death we fear most is the death of our principles before our body fails."
Thomas More
"Death teaches us the value of the life we have been given."
Thomas More
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"If you don't know how to die, why worry yourself about living?"
Michel de Montaigne
"Death is but crossing the world as friends do the seas."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"Do not fear death, for it is merely the end of one chapter and the beginning of another."
Hypatia
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"Death is merely the soul's liberation from flesh."
Porphyry
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"The body ages; the soul is eternally young."
Porphyry
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"We should view death as the soul's graduation."
Porphyry
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"Death teaches us the value of life."
Strabo
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"In death, we discover the meaning of life."
Strabo
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"Death is but passing from one room into another."
Petronius
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"Death is natural; fear is not."
Petronius
"Death is the final teacher, instructing us on the value of each moment."
Diogenes Laërtius