Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"Death is a debt we all must pay."
William S. Burroughs
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"We die every moment."
William Carlos Williams
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"Death is not the end but a transformation."
William Carlos Williams
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"Death reminds us to live fully."
William Carlos Williams
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"I'm starting to think that when you die you don't go to heaven or hell, you just go to sleep."
Jack Kerouac
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"Perhaps it is to teach us how to live that all men die"
e.e. cummings
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"The sea lifts its level surface and swallows all."
Hart Crane
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"Death is merely a transition, not an ending."
Hart Crane
"Now I've learned that the ghosts are all around us. We call them memories."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"Death is not the opposite of life but its completion."
William Carlos Williams
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"Death is the mother of beauty therefore she is also the mother of spirituality"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Death reminds us that life is precious and time is limited"
Allen Ginsberg
"Death is the mother of beauty."
Wallace Stevens
"In the end, we cannot take anything with us."
Wallace Stevens
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"I am not ready for knowledge of my death."
Hart Crane
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"Death teaches us to value the moments we possess."
Hart Crane
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"Death is but a doorway."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Grief is love with nowhere to go."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Death is a fact more real than life."
William Carlos Williams
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"Death teaches us how to live."
William Carlos Williams
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"Death teaches us that every moment is a gift we have not yet opened."
Hart Crane
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"Death is a good solution to all problems."
Allen Ginsberg
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"Death teaches us how to live."
Allen Ginsberg
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"Death teaches us the value of life."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Death is the price we pay for having lived."
Hilda Doolittle
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"Every moment is a little death and a little rebirth."
Jack Kerouac
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"Death is the one universal truth."
Amy Lowell
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"Death reminds us to live fully."
Amy Lowell
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"The death of old forms allows new life to emerge."
William Carlos Williams
"Death teaches us the value of life."
Wallace Stevens