Death Quotes
The one certainty. These quotes face mortality with wisdom, humor, and grace.
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"Death is not the end; it is a transition."François Mauriac
"Each person is born to one possession which outweighs all his others—his last breath."Mark Twain
"Death is not an ending but a transformation."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Death is but the shadow of life."Herman Melville
"To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub, for in that sleep of death what dreams may come."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"We are dying, all of us, but some die faster than others."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The body is a prison, and death is escape."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"The irony of life is that we fear death while dying every day."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Death is the only promise the world keeps perfectly."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Death is the one conversation we cannot avoid, only postpone."François Mauriac
"Death strips away all pretense and reveals what we truly valued."François Mauriac
"The Bustle in a house the Morning after Death is solemnest of industries."Emily Dickinson
"I felt a Funeral in my Brain and Mourners to and fro."Emily Dickinson
"Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all others: his last breath."Mark Twain
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born."Mark Twain
"Death has more than one entrance."Herman Melville
"Immortality is only the denial of death."Herman Melville
"We are all sentenced to death from birth, but we live as if we are immortal."Herman Melville
"A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Death is the only honest thing left in this corrupt world."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"We are all slowly dying; life is just a distraction from death."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Death is but a doorway to something greater."Romain Rolland
"Death reminds us to live fully."Romain Rolland
"Death teaches us that what mattered yesterday often matters not at all."François Mauriac
"Grief is love with nowhere to go, seeking expression in silence."François Mauriac
"Death is everywhere and everything; it is woven into the fabric of our existence"Henry James
"Death is the final punctuation mark on the sentence of our lives"Henry James
"We are all soldiers against death."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Death must be something dreadful. If it were not, he would not be so carefully avoided."Marcel Proust
"You have not truly lived until you have understood the purpose of your own death."André Gide