Death Quotes
The one certainty. These quotes face mortality with wisdom, humor, and grace.
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"To understand death is to understand life in its fullest measure."Locke, John
"Life and death are matters of no importance to an enlightened person."Hume, David
"Death is not the end of the soul, but a transformation."Averroes
"To fear death is to fear life itself, for they are but two sides of one coin."Avicenna
"Death is not an ending, but a transition to another realm of existence."Al-Ghazali
"In death, we finally understand the temporality of all earthly concerns."Al-Ghazali
"In the hour of death, we shall be judged by love alone."Augustine of Hippo
"Grief is the price we pay for love."Thomas Aquinas
"Death is the end of time, and the beginning of eternity."Thomas Aquinas
"The contemplation of mortality should inspire us to live virtuously."Averroes
"Death is not the end but a transition to another mode of existence."Averroes
"What then is death? A scary mask. Take it off—see, it does not bite."Epictetus
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."Seneca
"We are dying every day, let's try to die with a clean consciousness."Seneca
"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."Marcus Aurelius
"Death is the end of sensation and of the solicitude of the senses."Marcus Aurelius
"We are dying while we live, and yet we fear to die."Augustine of Hippo
"Death teaches us the value of time and the importance of how we spend our days."Averroes
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."Cicero
"Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still."Cicero
"Death is the one thing we should never mock, for it comes to all men."Seneca
"We are dying from the moment we are born, but we do not notice it."Seneca
"What is the evil of death? It is the greatest fear of youth because it is not a reality."Seneca
"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it comes, then we do not exist."Epictetus
"Accustom yourself to believing that death is nothing to us."Epicureanism Epicurus
"Avoid a violent death, but have no fear of death itself."Epicureanism Epicurus
"Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here; and when death comes, then we do not exist."Epicureanism Epicurus
"Why do you want to keep a dead thing? Did not your life benefit from never meeting them again?"Marcus Aurelius
"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."Marcus Aurelius
"Death, therefore, is nothing at all to us."Cicero