Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine."
Marlow
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
T
"I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly"
The Creature
V
"The death of my beloved was my first real sorrow"
Victor Frankenstein
M
"He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision,—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath."
Marlow
M
"He came back to me again and again."
Marlow
K
"Of all the things to have written on my tombstone, I'd like it to be: 'We are healthy. So it goes.'"
Kurt Vonnegut
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
K
"The horror! The horror!"
Kurtz
M
"I have wrestled with death."
Marlow
M
"His last breath carried the weight of all his knowledge."
Marlow
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
T
"I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames."
The Creature
T
"I shall slake the thirst which burns within me; but I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly."
The Creature
V
"The nosferatu are they that cannot die"
Van Helsing
M
"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine"
Marlow
K
"The horror! The horror!"
Kurtz
M
"Kurtz's painted head floated before us in the dusk"
Marlow
K
"The horror! The horror!"
Kurtz
B
"I have come to love death."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
V
"How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe?"
Victor Frankenstein
K
"The horror! The horror!"
Kurtz
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
T
"I shall die. I shall ascend my funeral pyre triumphantly"
The Creature
V
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings"
Victor Frankenstein
T
"I shall ascend the funeral pyre which shall consume and light up my cruel grave"
The Creature
Y
"The only real reason for dying in this war is that you have to die anyway."
Yossarian
B
"I have this disease late in life. It's very easy to cure. You die"
Billy Pilgrim
M
"She had died only recently."
Marlow