Death Quotes

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

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"We are all visibly dying, though some of us are given more time than others."
Edith Wharton
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"There are always two deaths—the first when we die, the second when we are forgotten."
Edith Wharton
"Death is but a transition to another state of being."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Death is the final truth that equalizes all human pretense."
Theodore Dreiser
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"Death reminds us that life is not infinite and therefore infinitely precious."
Sinclair Lewis
"The saddest thing about any man is that he is soon forgotten."
Willa Cather
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"Death is the only thing worth writing about."
Ernest Hemingway
"Death is the only truth from which we cannot hide or escape."
Theodore Dreiser
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"Death is the one event in life we cannot experience and survive."
Edith Wharton
"Death is but a transition to another existence."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Death teaches us to value life."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"The death of a dream is often the birth of a greater dream."
Sinclair Lewis
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"A person's death is less important than what they leave behind."
Sinclair Lewis
"Death reminds us to live fully while we have the chance."
Louisa May Alcott
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"Death is but a transition, and the grave merely a gateway."
Washington Irving
"The body betrays us long before the mind accepts defeat."
Theodore Dreiser
"The human condition is defined by our awareness of our own mortality."
Theodore Dreiser
"Death reminds us that our certainties are largely illusions."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"The fear of death is often greater than death itself."
Edith Wharton
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"Death teaches us the value of life."
Edith Wharton
"Death, be not proud, for the work of love transcends all temporal boundaries."
Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Death is not an ending but a transformation into something new."
Louisa May Alcott
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"Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The contemplation of death teaches us how to truly live."
Washington Irving
"Death teaches what life often obscures: the value of each moment."
James Fenimore Cooper
"Death is not an ending but a transformation we do not yet understand."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"Sleep, those little slices of death - how I loathe them."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Our towns are full of memories."
Willa Cather
"The death of a good man leaves a void that generations cannot fill."
James Fenimore Cooper