Death Quotes

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

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"Sadness is the soul's natural response to loss."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Death is not the opposite of life, but the completion of it."
Romain Rolland
"To understand death is to understand life."
Romain Rolland
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"Death teaches us the value of life."
François Mauriac
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"To be forgotten is the only death not preceded by suffering."
Anatole France
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"To die is to stop suffering, unless you believe in an afterlife."
Anatole France
"We are dying, all of us, but some notice it more than others."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"To be forgotten is worse than death because one can survive death."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Death is the only democracy that embraces all equally."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"The tragedy of life is not that it ends, but that it does not truly begin."
Henry James
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"We always think we will lose our memories and achieve immortality, but it is the opposite that is true."
Marcel Proust
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"Death gives meaning to life by giving it a boundary."
Marcel Proust
"I do not believe in the prolongation of human life. I believe one should die at thirty."
André Gide
"One dies in proportion to his wealth; the poor man's death is hardly noticed."
André Gide
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"In order to be an immortal you have to be dead."
Albert Camus
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"All that counts is the moment of transition from life to death."
Albert Camus
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"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head."
Albert Camus
"Death is not the opposite of life, but the completion of it; the final punctuation of our story."
Romain Rolland
"Death teaches us the value of life; without mortality, life would be meaningless."
Romain Rolland
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"Death is not an evil because nothing is evil for a thing to which all things are indifferent."
Simone de Beauvoir
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"To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjecture."
Anatole France
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"Death is not an event in life; it is the boundary of life"
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Death is not the opposite of life but its complement and conclusion."
Romain Rolland
"Death teaches us to value the moments we are given."
Romain Rolland
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"To lose one's life is a little thing and I shall have the courage to do so if it is necessary; but to see the meaning of this life dissipated, to see our reason for existence disappear, this is what is unbearable."
Albert Camus
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"Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, then we do not."
Denis Diderot
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"Death is not an event in life; we do not experience death."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Death is nothing at all; I have only slipped away."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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"Death is our permanent possibility of being unable to be."
Jean-Paul Sartre
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"Death gives life its meaning and urgency."
Jean-Paul Sartre