Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather did, not screaming like the passengers in his car."
Billy Pilgrim
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"I would like to die in my sleep like my grandfather did."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Death is the final frontier we all must cross."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"We are the dead. Our time is up. They got us long ago."
Winston Smith
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"All he found was Snowden."
Yossarian
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"We are the dead. Our time is finished."
Julia
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"Death is not an ending but a transformation."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"A man can do just so much dying in a lifetime, and that's the only thing worth knowing."
Yossarian
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"Death teaches us how to live."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"We are the dead. There is no escape."
Julia
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"Do you understand that no one whom we bring here ever leaves our hands alive?"
O'Brien
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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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"We are the dead. Our time is up."
Winston Smith
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"The terrible thing, the really terrible thing, was that Julia was dead."
Winston Smith
W
"Syme would be vaporized. It was written in his face."
Winston Smith
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"I have wrestled with death."
Kurtz
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"We are all sentenced to death, but the time is unknown"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The bombardier's gone."
Yossarian
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"All he could think of was Snowden."
Yossarian
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"We are the dead."
Winston Smith
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"The Party is immortal; you are not. The Party will still be there when you are dead."
O'Brien
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"The horror! The horror!"
Kurtz
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"Death is the only certainty in life"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"The horror! The horror!"
Kurtz
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"The tranquility here is like the sleep of death"
Marlow
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"We are the dead. Our time is finished."
Winston Smith
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"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamador was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
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"I have myself become the greatest and most terrible of all mummies."
Victor Frankenstein
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"Farewell! I leave you, and in you the last of the human race whom these eyes will ever behold."
The Creature
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"The horror! The horror!"
Kurtz