Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"Death is the end of everything."
Levin
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"Death is inevitable. We all must face it alone"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Mortality reminds us of what truly matters"
Abbé Faria
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"I have become a murderer of my own soul."
Raskolnikov
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"Death is the only thing we can be sure of in life."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"A man may die but once."
Don Quixote
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"Death is the only certainty that cannot be disputed."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Better to die than to live as the priest has lived."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Death is the end of everything."
Anna Karenina
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"Death is nothing. What is dreadful is dying with a divided will."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Death is but a shadow; love is eternal."
Jean Valjean
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"I die as I have lived, alone."
Villefort
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"The question of how not to live had been solved for him even more definitively."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Better to die than to live in this disordered state!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Death is neither evil nor good in itself. It is the manner of dying that is good or evil."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The tragedy of life is not that it ends, but how it ends."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"A good death does honor to a whole life."
Don Quixote
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"Death is the only thing that is unavoidable."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Death is but a doorway to another realm."
Abbé Faria
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"Death is but a natural part of life's great cycle."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Better to die than to live as I do now."
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"What could be more important than knowing that you're going to be dead in a hundred years anyway?"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Every man dies, not every man truly lives."
Don Quixote
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"Death is the only truth we all must face."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Death is the end of life and nothing more."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The dead alone do not return."
Edmond Dantès
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"Death, the last sleep? No, the final awakening."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Death seemed preferable to the life she had to live."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"To understand life is to understand death."
Pierre Bezukhov