Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"When we die, we only appear to die. We are all still alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at our funerals."
Tralfamadorian
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
F
"To die happy is not to live forever."
Fantine
B
"The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die."
Billy Pilgrim
B
"Billy said, 'I want you to know that I'm doing it, the last one, now.'"
Billy Pilgrim
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."
Billy Pilgrim
T
"The boy said: Are we going to die? He said: Someday. Not now."
The Boy
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"The reason death sticks so closely to life is that it is something universal."
Pi Patel
P
"My life is like a memento mori painting from the Renaissance: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of my desires."
Pi Patel
J
"The judge smiled at the dying man"
Judge Holden
J
"Men are made of dust and die and in all of this he takes no interest."
Judge Holden
S
"How does an old man know he's gonna die?"
Sheriff Bell
T
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy."
The Narrator
J
"The secrets of this land are not for the living."
Judge Holden
L
"You ever feel like dying?"
Llewelyn Moss
A
"We're all of us the walking dead."
Anton Chigurh
M
"What is the sense in loving the dead?"
Mariam
T
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy."
The Narrator
K
"You've no idea how strange it seems to me to think of the world going on without me in it."
Kid
P
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy."
Pi Patel
J
"All things move toward their extinction"
Judge Holden
J
"Everything dies, boy. Everything"
Judge Holden
J
"You are made of dust and to dust you shall return"
Judge Holden
P
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy."
Pi Patel
T
"The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity—it's envy."
The Narrator
J
"The dying come no further. The dead too remain at their appointed stations."
Judge Holden
J
"Every one of us has got to do down there in the night, some time or other"
Jim
O
"What happened to them anyway?"
Offred
J
"I have been to see them. I have seen them in their graves."
Judge Holden