Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Death is the only reality we know with certainty."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
Y
"That's all there is to it. A man is better off dead."
Yossarian
O
"In the end we shall shoot you."
O'Brien
B
"Death is nothing at all."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Death is not an evil, but a necessity."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
B
"The most important thing I have learned on Tralfamadore is that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
P
"There is something divine in parting"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
W
"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Winston Smith
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"Death is something that happens to everybody eventually."
Holden Caulfield
C
"I'm gonna die right here"
Curley's wife
C
"She like to set in chairs an' foam at the mouth"
Curley's wife
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"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies, he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
W
"We are the dead. Our time is gone."
Winston Smith
G
"You crazy son-of-a-bitch. You killed him"
George Milton
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"Death is awful. It is better not to think of it"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
B
"We will all be dead soon. That is what I have learned."
Billy Pilgrim
C
"I'm gonna shoot the pup."
Candy
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"So it goes, Billy said to his wife in the dream, I've seen my own death."
Billy Pilgrim
W
"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Winston Smith
Y
"The problem with people is that they're always getting killed."
Yossarian
H
"It would be quite a phenomenon if I could come back to life after I was dead."
Holden Caulfield
H
"I'd rather just stay dead. But I don't know. It's hard to say."
Holden Caulfield
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die"
Billy Pilgrim
P
"Death is for man a transition to a higher existence"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
C
"You crazy son-of-a-bitch. You killed him"
Curley's wife
P
"Death is the great equalizer."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past."
Billy Pilgrim