Death Quotes

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

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"To be forgotten is the only true death."
Boris Pasternak
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"Death is the price we pay for life."
Maxim Gorky
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"Old age is a shipwreck."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Death is not the end; it is the punctuation of a sentence."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Death is merely the final separation from those we never truly possessed."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Death is but a door through which all must pass."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Death, sleep, and oblivion are akin"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Death is not the end, but a transformation into something unknown."
Maxim Gorky
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"Death reminds us that life is finite and therefore infinitely precious."
Maxim Gorky
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"Death is not the end but a transition we all must understand."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Death reminds us to live with greater intention."
Ivan Turgenev
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"In the face of death, we understand life."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Death is the only guarantee life offers us."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Death is not an end but a transformation we do not understand."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Death teaches us the value of every moment we have been given."
Nikolai Gogol
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"If we were to awaken tomorrow and discover we were dead, we would rejoice."
Anton Chekhov
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"How dreadful it is to love something that death can touch."
Anton Chekhov
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"When a man has once loved deeply, he cannot help being interested in death."
Anton Chekhov
"The dead are patient."
Samuel Beckett
"The only certainty is death."
Samuel Beckett
"We are all condemned to die."
Samuel Beckett
"We are born dying."
Samuel Beckett
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"Death can only be called bad by those who view existence as a good."
Leo Tolstoy
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"I cannot conceive of the real thing called death at all."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Death teaches us the value of life."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Death is but the final chapter in the story of life."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Death teaches us how to live if we listen to its lesson."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Death is merely life's punctuation, not its meaning."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"Even the most superstitious man becomes rational in the presence of death."
James Joyce