Death Quotes

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

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"Death is not an ending, but a transition to a state we cannot yet comprehend or fear."
Washington Irving
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"Death reminds us that our time is finite; this knowledge should make our days infinitely precious."
Washington Irving
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"Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me."
Emily Dickinson
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"This quiet Dust was Gentlemen and Ladies."
Emily Dickinson
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"I heard a Fly buzz when I died."
Emily Dickinson
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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I have absolutely no fear of death."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Death is not the opposite of life but its completion."
Edgar Allan Poe
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life."
Mark Twain
"The shadow of death reminds us that life is precious and finite."
James Fenimore Cooper
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"Sleep, those little slices of death—how I loathe them."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"The only secret people keep is immortality."
Emily Dickinson
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"A solemn feeling came upon me as I was told of death."
Emily Dickinson
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"Death is but the close of a school day, and we return to resume our lessons in a broader, truer school."
Washington Irving
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
Mark Twain
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"Death may come for us all, but the memory of a good life never dies."
Herman Melville
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"Death is not the opposite of life but its final punctuation."
Herman Melville
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"To understand death is to understand life."
Herman Melville
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"Death is nature's way of saying hello."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Sleep, those little slices of death—how I loathe them."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"I felt a funeral in my brain."
Emily Dickinson
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"The only secret people keep is immortality."
Emily Dickinson
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"I heard a Fly buzz when I died."
Emily Dickinson
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"The distance that the dead have gone does not at first appear."
Emily Dickinson
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"The Bustle in a house the morning after Death is solemnest of industries."
Emily Dickinson
"Death is the only thing we know about and can never convince ourselves we believe in."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Death teaches us to live."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Death is a teacher."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Death, in this vale of tears, is the only permanent success."
Henry James