Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"The fear of death diminishes when we live fully."
Michel Bakunin
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"Death teaches us the preciousness of every moment lived."
Michel Bakunin
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"The fear of death diminishes when we have truly lived."
Emma Goldman
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"We are ourselves our own tombs."
Michel Foucault
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"Death is perhaps the only concept that defines us."
Michel Foucault
"Death is not an ending but a transformation."
Friedrich Engels
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"To live is to be caught within webs of power from which there is no exit, only different modes of engagement."
Michel Foucault
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"There may be equality in the graveyard, but there never will be on earth."
Edmund Burke
Q
"I grieve deeply over any loss."
Queen Victoria
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"The only thing sure in the world is the necessity of paying taxes and dying."
Prince Metternich
Q
"The loss of a beloved person is a calamity that no time can wholly heal."
Queen Victoria
"Death is merely a doorway."
Wilhelm II
"One must face death with dignity."
Wilhelm II
B
"Sleep is a death; oh, how I loathe these little slices of death."
Benjamin Disraeli
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"Death is not an end, but a transition to another form of existence."
Queen Victoria
"Death is not an ending but a transition; I do not fear it."
Wilhelm II
"Death teaches us to value the present moment above all else."
Wilhelm II
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"In the face of death, we measure the value of how we lived."
William Gladstone
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"Death is the great teacher that puts all earthly concerns in proper perspective."
William Gladstone
"Death is the only enemy that time cannot defeat."
Wilhelm II
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"The death of loved ones teaches us the value of every moment we possess."
Queen Victoria
"I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."
Marie Antoinette
"The day may come when I shall have to bid a long farewell to life."
Marie Antoinette
"I have only moments to live, but I face death without trembling."
Marie Antoinette
"I do not fear death; I have long expected it."
Marie Antoinette
"Death is the final adventure."
Marie Antoinette
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"In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes, to which I add uncertainty."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Death is but the final chapter in life's grand narrative."
Wilhelm II
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"Death is nothing to fear when one has lived for a noble purpose."
Camille Desmoulins
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"Death comes for us all; let us die fighting for something noble."
Camille Desmoulins