Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"The grave is the only certainty we possess before birth."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Death is the only absolute truth in life; all else is interpretation."
Kate Chopin
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"Death teaches us to question whether we are truly living."
Kate Chopin
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"The death of a man is not the end of him."
Upton Sinclair
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"Death is not an ending, but a transition."
O. Henry
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"Mortality gives life its meaning and urgency."
Jack London
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"Death reminds us that life is precious and finite."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
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"Death reminds us that time is the one resource we cannot replenish."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Death is not an ending but a transformation."
Booth Tarkington
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"Death teaches us the value of living."
Booth Tarkington
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"Death teaches us to value the living moments we have."
Mary Wilkins Freeman
"Death is the only experience life has to offer that equals love in intensity."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Death is not the end; it's just the final curtain call."
O. Henry
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"Death reminds us that time is finite and choices matter."
Upton Sinclair
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"I will sleep without dreams and without waking, and then one day I will wake no more."
Jack London
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"Death is not the end of life; it is life's completion."
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Death is not an evil, but the final rest from labor."
O. Henry
"Death is the only thing that matters in life."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Death is not an ending but a transformation."
Booth Tarkington
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"Death is not something to fear but to accept with grace."
Booth Tarkington
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"Those moments before we die are the only ones that matter."
Jack London
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"What does it matter? We are bound to die anyway."
Jack London
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"Every moment of our lives we are becoming the corpses we will be."
Upton Sinclair
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"Do not ask for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
T.S. Eliot
"To be forgotten is the deepest fear of the living."
Sherwood Anderson
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"Death is the only thing that is not an illusion."
Gertrude Stein
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"Death is not an end but a transition to something greater."
Booth Tarkington
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"To understand death is to understand life in its fullest measure."
Booth Tarkington
"I want my body burned when I die."
Carl Sandburg
"An old man dies. When he goes all his memories go with him."
Carl Sandburg