Death Quotes

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

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"There is nothing so little known as life, nothing so little understood as death."
Frances Burney
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"Death is but a transition."
Frances Burney
"Death is not an end but a transition."
Daniel Defoe
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"Death is but crossing the world as friends do the seas."
Laurence Sterne
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"Death is just another path which we all must take."
Laurence Sterne
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"Death reminds us that life is precious and finite."
Ann Radcliffe
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"Death is the period that concludes life's sentence."
Ann Radcliffe
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"To die is to cease all perception, all sensation, all feeling; what can be more ignoble than that?"
Stendhal
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"Death is but the transition to a higher state of existence."
Henry Fielding
"The grave is the universal sanctuary."
Daniel Defoe
"Legacy is what we leave behind."
Daniel Defoe
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"Death is the only thing that we absolutely know for certain."
Stendhal
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"Death is but a transition, not an ending."
Frances Burney
"The best of men cannot suspend their fate; the good die early, and the bad die late."
Daniel Defoe
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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."
Jonathan Swift
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"Death is a debt we all must pay."
Jonathan Swift
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"Death is not the end of existence, but a transformation we cannot yet comprehend."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The only sure thing in life is death and taxes."
Samuel Johnson
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"Death is the final truth that humbles all human pretension."
Henry Fielding
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"Death reminds us that time is precious and must be wisely spent."
Henry Fielding
"Death is the final exclamation point on life's sentence."
Daniel Defoe
"Death is but a threshold to another world."
Aphra Behn
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"Death is not the end; it is the beginning of understanding."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"We must not fear death, but embrace life."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Death, being inevitable, should teach us to live with greater intention and authenticity."
Eliza Haywood
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"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind."
Samuel Johnson
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"When the lamp is shattered, the light in the dust lies dead."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"How wonderful is Death! Death and his brother Sleep!"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"What grave is this? O womb of death!"
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"To be forgotten is a fate worse than any physical torment."
Aphra Behn