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
"Death is but a transition."Frances Burney
"Death is not an end but a transition."Daniel Defoe
"Death is but crossing the world as friends do the seas."Laurence Sterne
"Death is just another path which we all must take."Laurence Sterne
"Death reminds us that life is precious and finite."Ann Radcliffe
"Death is the period that concludes life's sentence."Ann Radcliffe
"To die is to cease all perception, all sensation, all feeling; what can be more ignoble than that?"Stendhal
"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
"Death is the only thing that we absolutely know for certain."Stendhal
"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
"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
"Death is a debt we all must pay."Jonathan Swift
"Death is not the end of existence, but a transformation we cannot yet comprehend."Ann Radcliffe
"The only sure thing in life is death and taxes."Samuel Johnson
"Death is the final truth that humbles all human pretension."Henry Fielding
"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
"Death is not the end; it is the beginning of understanding."Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"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
"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
"When the lamp is shattered, the light in the dust lies dead."Percy Bysshe Shelley
"How wonderful is Death! Death and his brother Sleep!"Percy Bysshe Shelley
"What grave is this? O womb of death!"Percy Bysshe Shelley
"To be forgotten is a fate worse than any physical torment."Aphra Behn