Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"Mortality gives meaning to the eternal now"
Sappho
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"Even in death, the atoms that compose us return to the universal air."
Anaximenes
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"Death is not evil; it is the natural completion of life's circle."
Xenophanes
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"We do not fear death, but rather the unlived life."
Xenophanes
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"In the face of mortality, we learn to truly live."
Aesop
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"What is born from nothing must someday return to nothingness."
Leucippus
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"We are born of the earth and return to it."
Anaximander
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"Death is not an ending, but a transformation."
Anaximander
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"Death teaches us to live fully."
Anaximander
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"Death is the final silence."
Aristophanes
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"Death is an evil; the gods would not have made it so were it not."
Sappho
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"What we call death is merely a transformation of elements."
Anaxagoras
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"All things return to the apeiron, just as all rivers flow to the sea."
Anaximander
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"Old age shakes all around me, I tremble, how long have I to live."
Euripides
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"Nothing in life is certain but death and taxes."
Euripides
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"Death is not an end but a transformation into another state of being."
Xenophanes
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"Where are your ancestors? Their names are forgotten. Where are they now?"
Sophocles
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"What we call death is only transformation and change of form."
Anaxagoras
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"A man should fear not death but the failure to have lived fully."
Aristophanes
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"When good men die, their goodness does not perish."
Euripides
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"We are born from the earth and to the earth we must return, completing the cycle."
Anaximander
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"What separates the living from the dead? But a transformation within the boundless."
Anaximander
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"The body decays, but the elements return eternal to the boundless source."
Anaximander
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"In every death, the substance returns to its original state of purity."
Anaximenes
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"Death is not an end, but a transformation into a different mode of being."
Anaximenes
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"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust"
Empedocles
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"All change is birth and death"
Empedocles
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"Death is but a transformation"
Empedocles
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"Death is the gateway to transformation"
Empedocles
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"Grief is a patient teacher, if we have the wisdom to listen"
Sophocles