Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"I want to keep my dead to myself."
Chaplain Tappman
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"I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine"
Marlow
K
"The horror! The horror!"
Kurtz
M
"Dead and gone are the days of lightness and of song."
Mina Murray
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"I am satisfied; misery has come, and I leave it to you."
The Creature
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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
B
"The only reason we die is because we accept it as inevitable."
Billy Pilgrim
C
"There is no cure for the human condition but death."
Count Dracula
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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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"It doesn't make a difference if you're killed by GOD or by the devil."
Yossarian
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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
V
"Death is not the end, but a transformation."
Van Helsing
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"We are going to show you how to die."
Tralfamadorian
V
"The nosferatu do not die like the bee when he has stung once."
Van Helsing
V
"One foot in grave already is he."
Van Helsing
C
"Death is but a doorway to another realm."
Count Dracula
C
"The curse of immortality is the burden of memory."
Count Dracula
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"What happened to Boxer was the will of fate"
Squealer
R
"The boy is dead. Accept it."
Rasheed
V
"Death itself is but a transition"
Van Helsing
V
"The dead shall rise again"
Van Helsing
V
"The dead do not rest easy when wronged."
Van Helsing
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, so it is all right to ignore somebody who has just died, because of the horrible things they have done."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"Tralfamadorians don't see people as buried and they don't see people as dying. They see them as if they're alive."
Billy Pilgrim
K
"I have this disease late in life. It's a very public disease, because I die all the time, so to speak."
Kurt Vonnegut
B
"It is time for me to be dead."
Billy Pilgrim
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"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it."
Pi Patel
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
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"I have other things on my mind. My dead."
Pi Patel