Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

"Whom the gods love die young."
Caligula
"Death is but a doorway."
Caligula
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
Caligula
"Death is merely the final performance, the last standing ovation."
Nero
"Death fears only those who fear it in return."
Nero
D
"The man who fears death has already surrendered to it."
Domitian
D
"To be remembered is a greater curse than to be forgotten."
Domitian
D
"In the presence of death, all earthly concerns become insignificant."
Domitian
D
"To seek immortality through deeds is to acknowledge one's mortality."
Domitian
"Death is not the end, but a transition."
Tiberius
C
"Death is not the opposite of life, but a natural part of it."
Claudius
"Death is the only equality I acknowledge among men."
Caligula
"I have discovered that immortality comes through infamy."
Caligula
T
"Death teaches us what life often conceals: the value of each moment."
Titus
"Death is not the end, but a transformation."
Nero
"Death is the final teacher of what truly matters."
Nero
"The contemplation of death is the gateway to understanding life."
Vespasian
"The contemplation of death teaches us the proper way to live."
Vespasian
D
"Death is the only entity that rivals the emperor's authority."
Domitian
D
"I do not fear death; I fear only being forgotten."
Domitian
"The man who seeks immortality through power will find only dust."
Tiberius
"A good death is worth more than a long life lived poorly."
Tiberius
"I dance with death daily, and he has not yet claimed me."
Caligula
C
"I have become aware of my own mortality."
Claudius
C
"In the end, all men are subject to the same mortal laws."
Claudius
"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."
Nero
"To die would be an awfully big adventure."
Nero
"Death is not the end; it is the beginning of eternity."
Nero
"Death is not the end; it is the beginning of a new journey."
Augustus
"Death is the only certainty in life."
Augustus