Death Quotes
The one certainty. These quotes face mortality with wisdom, humor, and grace.
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"Death is the teacher that makes life precious."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"I write against death, for words are our rebellion against oblivion."Anna Akhmatova
"The battle between life and death is the oldest story ever told."August Strindberg
"Mortality teaches us the value of time."August Strindberg
"Death is not an ending, but a transformation into something new."Selma Lagerlöf
"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
"To die nobly is not the work of a moment, but of a whole life."Henrik Ibsen
"Death is not the greatest loss in life; the greatest loss is what dies in us while we live."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"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
"Death is not the end, but a transformation."Maxim Gorky
"Death is the only absolute truth."Vladimir Nabokov
"Death is not an ending; it is a transformation we do not yet understand."August Strindberg
"The death of illusions is the birth of wisdom."Henrik Ibsen
"Death teaches us the value of life more than life itself ever could."Henrik Ibsen
"Death is not the opposite of life, but its completion and meaning."Boris Pasternak
"Death reminds us that everything we do must matter, or not at all."Boris Pasternak
"Death is but a crossing of the world, as friends do a narrow creek."Nikolai Gogol
"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
"Everything is plundered, betrayed, sold, death's great black wing scrapes the earth."Anna Akhmatova
"Death is our constant companion; it teaches us the value of life."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"The only true immortality is in the memory of others."Mikhail Lermontov
"Death is not the end, but a transition."Mikhail Lermontov
"Death teaches us to live fully."Mikhail Lermontov
"Death is the only absolute truth we know."Vladimir Nabokov
"My fate is sealed and my last hour awaits me."Aleksandr Pushkin
"Death is but a passage to eternity."Aleksandr Pushkin
"Death is merely the final chapter in an unfinished story."Nikolai Gogol
"Death teaches us what life means."Boris Pasternak