Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"Death teaches us to value life."
Anne Brontë
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"Death gives meaning to life."
Anne Brontë
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"Death and the sun cannot be looked at steadily."
William Butler Yeats
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"Cast a cold eye on life, on death."
William Butler Yeats
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"Do not try to live forever; you will not succeed."
George Bernard Shaw
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"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
James Joyce
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"The tragedy of life is not that it ends, but that we know it will."
Thomas Hardy
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"Death is the only absolute truth; everything else is negotiable."
Thomas Hardy
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"My life has a superb epigraph in the fact that I was born and I shall die."
George Eliot
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"The sadness lies in the permanence of loss."
George Eliot
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"How strange it might be to wake some morning and find myself gone."
Emily Brontë
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"To live as if death were not, is to live as a fool."
William Butler Yeats
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"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Death is not an ending, but a transformation."
Emily Brontë
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"Death is the punctuation mark that gives meaning to the sentence of life."
Thomas Hardy
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"In grief, we find the measure of our love."
George Eliot
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"Death is but a transition to another form of existence"
Charles Dickens
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"Sorrow teaches what joy cannot."
Anne Brontë
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"Death reminds us to live fully while we can."
Anne Brontë
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"Our worst fear is not our death, but the thought that we have wasted our life."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Death is not the end; it is merely a transformation."
Emily Brontë
"One should love only the dead."
Gustave Flaubert
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"It is impossible to spend life so as to prevent the approach of death."
George Eliot
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"Death is always ready to take the master instead of the servant"
Charles Dickens
"Death is not the end, but a transition to another form of existence."
Émile Zola
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"Death is the greatest of all human blessings."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Death may be the end of a life but not of a relationship."
Honoré de Balzac
"We are dying all the time, yet we pretend we are immortal."
Gustave Flaubert
"We should enter death like we enter life—with hope and dignity."
Gustave Flaubert
"Death teaches us the value of life; we live as if we might die tomorrow."
Émile Zola