Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"Death is not the opposite of life; it is merely life's final honesty."
Knut Hamsun
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"To be born is to inherit a wound that takes a lifetime to understand."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Death is merely the final editing of life's manuscript."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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"Death is not an ending but a transformation."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"We must accept death to truly appreciate life."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Death teaches us the value of life."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Death is not an ending but a transformation."
Selma Lagerlöf
"Death is but a doorway to what lies beyond."
Robert Browning
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"Death is and remains the last enemy."
Søren Kierkegaard
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"Flowers fade, hearts break, and everything turns to dust."
Søren Kierkegaard
"Death is not an end but a transformation."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Sleep, those little slices of death—how I loathe them."
August Strindberg
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"Death is a release from the impressions of sense, and need not be feared."
August Strindberg
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"Death teaches us how to live."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"In contemplating death, we learn how to live."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Death is not the end; it is merely a transition."
Henrik Ibsen
"Death teaches us how to live."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"To acknowledge death is to truly appreciate life."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"Death reminds us that time is our most precious currency."
Hans Christian Andersen
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"If mankind is to have a hopeful future, it will have to learn to come to terms with death."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"The heart is burdened with more sorrow than is possible to contain."
Anna Akhmatova
"Death teaches us the value of life"
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"In the midst of life we are in death; from the power of the grave who shall deliver us?"
Søren Kierkegaard
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"In a month or a year or a hundred years, we will all be dead; we will have disappeared utterly."
August Strindberg
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"In accepting death, we truly learn how to live."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"In each goodbye, we practice the acceptance of loss."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"Death is not the end of life but the end of illusion."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Death is not an ending, but a transformation."
Boris Pasternak
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"We are all dying, so let us not forget to truly live."
Boris Pasternak
"Death teaches us the preciousness of each moment."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson