Death Quotes

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

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"Death is a wonderful thing."
William Blake
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"I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"When I am dead, my dearest, sing no sad songs for me."
Christina Rossetti
"Death never takes the young by surprise."
Christina Rossetti
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"Mortality weighs heavily upon the heart."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Death is but a transition to another state of being."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"It is impossible that any thing 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 merely the final curtain call on life's stage."
Aphra Behn
"Death is not an ending but a transformation."
Aphra Behn
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"Death is only fearful when we are given time to think about it."
Samuel Johnson
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"The very fact that he is mortal should make his life more precious."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"I am the only being whose doom is to be deprived of a funeral."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"But when will the Sepulcher cease from the increasing of misery?"
William Blake
"Death is but a doorway to another realm."
Christina Rossetti
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"We live and die; all things pass away, all are born and die; the stars become dark, and the sun becomes cold."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Death is not an end, but a transformation into another form of being."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Death is the greatest teacher of what truly matters in life."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Death is a debt we all must pay."
Jonathan Swift
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"Death is but the threshold to another realm."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Death teaches us the value of every moment we are given."
Eliza Haywood
"Death is not an ending but a transformation we do not understand."
Christina Rossetti
"Death teaches us that time is the most precious currency."
Christina Rossetti
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"Death is only dreadful for those who live in such a manner that it is better for them not to exist."
Samuel Johnson
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"It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives; the act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time."
Samuel Johnson
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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Grief is the price we pay for love."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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"Death, however grim an experience, is not tragic because it is universal."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"Death is but a doorway to something beyond our understanding."
Christina Rossetti
"Death reminds us to live fully and love deeply."
Christina Rossetti
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"Death hath made his darkness beautiful with thee"
Alfred, Lord Tennyson