Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"Death is the teacher that makes life precious."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"I write against death, for words are our rebellion against oblivion."
Anna Akhmatova
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"The battle between life and death is the oldest story ever told."
August Strindberg
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"Mortality teaches us the value of time."
August Strindberg
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"Death is not an ending, but a transformation into something new."
Selma Lagerlöf
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"In accepting death, we learn to truly live."
Selma Lagerlöf
"The death of the body is not the end of influence; we live on through those we have touched."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"To die nobly is not the work of a moment, but of a whole life."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies in us while we live."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold, death's great beginning moves in the darkness like a luminous point."
Anna Akhmatova
"Death is not the opposite of life, but part of it."
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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"Death is not the end, but a transformation."
Maxim Gorky
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"Death is the only absolute truth."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"Death is not an ending; it is a transformation we do not yet understand."
August Strindberg
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"The death of illusions is the birth of wisdom."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Death teaches us the value of life more than life itself ever could."
Henrik Ibsen
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"Death is not the opposite of life, but its completion and meaning."
Boris Pasternak
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"Death reminds us that everything we do must matter, or not at all."
Boris Pasternak
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"Death is but a crossing of the world, as friends do a narrow creek."
Nikolai Gogol
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"I have always thought that a man dies badly only when death is forced upon him by disease or violence, when it is imposed by fate against his will."
Maxim Gorky
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"Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold, death's great black wing scrapes the earth."
Anna Akhmatova
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"Death is our constant companion; it teaches us the value of life."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"The only true immortality is in the memory of others."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Death is not the end, but a transition."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Death teaches us to live fully."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Death is the only absolute truth we know."
Vladimir Nabokov
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"My fate is sealed and my last hour awaits me."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Death is but a passage to eternity."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Death is merely the final chapter in an unfinished story."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Death teaches us what life means."
Boris Pasternak