Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

C
"In death, we meet the judgment of eternity; in life, we meet the judgment of conscience."
Cincinnatus
C
"Death awaits all equally; how we live determines what we leave behind."
Cincinnatus
A
"Death is merely the price paid by those who lived too greatly."
Alcibiades
R
"To understand life, one must first come to terms with death."
Romulus
L
"Death is not an end but a transformation."
Lycurgus
S
"A man who dies for his principles is remembered; a man who betrays them is forgotten."
Solon
"A man who dies for his city achieves immortality."
Miltiades
L
"To live well, one must first learn to die well."
Lycurgus
"Death is but a doorway, time is but a window."
Leonidas I
A
"Death is not the end of our influence; it is merely the end of our ability to change course."
Alcibiades
A
"Death is the final argument against the importance of our daily quarrels."
Alcibiades
P
"I am but dust, returning to dust, as all men do."
Philip II
"A warrior dies but once; a coward dies a thousand times."
Leonidas I
I
"A good character is the best tombstone."
Isocrates
D
"Death is but the crossing of the world as the friends do at a parting."
Demosthenes
T
"Death is not the end; it is the beginning of immortality through memory."
Themistocles
T
"Death is the price we pay for having lived."
Themistocles
"Death comes for all men; the question is how we meet it."
Leonidas I
P
"Death comes to all; what matters is how we live before it arrives."
Philip II
I
"The death of the body is certain, but the death of influence is not."
Isocrates
D
"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."
Demosthenes
T
"Death is not the end, but a transition to memory."
Themistocles
P
"The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their deeds are recorded not only on stone over their native earth, but live on far away."
Pericles
P
"A man who fears his own mortality cannot truly live."
Philip II
D
"Death is not the end; it is the beginning."
Demosthenes
"Do not mourn those who fall in a just cause; celebrate that they lived with honor."
Leonidas I
E
"Death reminds us to make our life meaningful."
Eratosthenes
I
"Death is not the opposite of life, but its punctuation—it gives life meaning."
Isocrates
P
"What we leave behind is far more important than what we take with us."
Pericles
"In death, we find immortality through those we inspire."
Leonidas I