Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"Death is an awakening for those who sleep in life."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The monotony of existence was killing her slowly."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had murdered hope with her own hands."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
Nick Carraway
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"Death comes to all."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The soul dies before the body does."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"You can't live forever; you can't live forever."
Daisy Buchanan
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"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
Nick Carraway
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"Death is the only truth in a world of lies."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."
Fantine
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"Death is but a transition to another life."
Abbé Faria
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"Death is but a doorway to eternity."
Abbé Faria
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"Death is the final truth."
Raskolnikov
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"We are dying, and we know it, yet we live."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The grief of his condition required that the measure of his anguish be drawn from the grave."
Nick Carraway
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"Death is the only true judge of men."
Abbé Faria
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"The dead know no sorrow"
Marmeladov
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"Death is a comforter for those who suffer."
Fantine
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"Death is but a liberation"
Abbé Faria
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"The real tragedy is not death, but unfulfilled life"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Death is merely a transition, not an ending."
Abbé Faria
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"Without suffering, what is the incentive to live"
Ivan Karamazov
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"In life there is nothing certain but death and taxes."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Death is nothing to fear when life has been lived fully"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"I'm going to drain the pool tonight."
Jay Gatsby
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"I'm the dead man in my bed."
Yossarian
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"Some day I'll die and some day you'll die."
Yossarian
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"We are the dead. It is the future that matters."
Winston Smith
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"Death is not an evil, because it is universal"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Death is an awakening."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky