Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"We are the dead. Our time is finished."
Winston Smith
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"The desire for a full human life brings the desire for death."
O'Brien
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"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Julia
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"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Winston Smith
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"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Winston Smith
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"We are the dead."
Julia
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"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Winston Smith
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"You may consider yourself dead."
O'Brien
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"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Winston Smith
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"They are rather pleasant to look at, more especially the women, because one knows that they will all be destroyed in a few years."
Winston Smith
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"We are the dead."
Julia
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"By the time you read this, I will be dead."
O'Brien
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"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Winston Smith
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"We are the dead."
Winston Smith
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"I shall be in the grave long before you."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"It is the nature of men to die"
The Narrator
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"Death is but a shadow that passes across the deck at twilight."
Starbuck
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"In the shadow of the guillotine, all pretense falls away"
The Narrator
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"The night comes on when no man can work"
The Narrator
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"Her spirit has found freedom in death."
Nelly Dean
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"Death is the only escape from this torment."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"She's fading fast, like a candle in the wind."
Nelly Dean
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"In the shadow of the guillotine, all men are equal"
The Narrator
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"Oh, lonely death on lonely life!"
Captain Ahab
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"The footsteps die out forever. Those echoes are the last I shall ever hear."
Sydney Carton
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"Death cannot be far off; I feel like one who is about to enter the grave."
Catherine Earnshaw
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"I see Scores of people immediately around us, with the absolute certitude that some among this number will inevitably be summoned"
The Narrator
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"The knitting will be done in a few days, and then will come the Guillotine"
Madame Defarge
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"The coffin was some sort of baffle or fender off the vessel's side"
Ishmael
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"I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there."
Catherine Earnshaw