Death Quotes

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

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"One pays heavily for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Death gives meaning to life by making it finite."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Death is but the natural conclusion to a well-lived life."
Hume, David
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"Death is the natural conclusion of life, not its negation."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Death reminds us that we are finite beings in an infinite cosmos."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"The quality of life is not determined by the length of years."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Death is the ultimate reminder of life's profound seriousness."
Kant, Immanuel
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"Death is but a transition from one state of being to another."
Berkeley, George
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"Death is merely a transition to another state."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Death gives meaning to life."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Death is but the cessation of bodily motion."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Death teaches us the value of life."
Maimonides
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"Death is not the opposite of life but its completion."
Maimonides
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"The death of one man is a tragedy; the death of a thousand is but a statistic."
Locke, John
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"A good death is the greatest blessing after a good life."
Al-Ghazali
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"Death is not an end, but a transformation."
Avicenna
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"Death is not the end but a transition to another form of existence."
Maimonides
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"A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation on life, not on death."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Death is merely a transition to another state."
Leibniz, Gottfried
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"Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away to the next room."
Hume, David
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"All things are only temporary."
Locke, John
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"Death is not an end but a transition to another state of being."
Al-Ghazali
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"In death, all worldly distinctions dissolve into equality."
Al-Ghazali
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"The contemplation of death teaches us how to live."
Maimonides
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"Death reminds us of life's value; do not waste it."
Maimonides
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"The human mind can be of such a nature that the part which we have shown to perish with the body is of no account in relation to what remains."
Spinoza, Baruch
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"Death is but the end of one journey and the beginning of another."
Descartes, René
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"Every soul will taste death; death is only a messenger."
Al-Ghazali
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"The wise person does not fear death but fears wasting life."
Avicenna
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"Death is not the end of life, but the return of a debt long borrowed from nature."
Locke, John