Death Quotes
The one certainty. These quotes face mortality with wisdom, humor, and grace.
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"All things proceed from darkness and all things end in darkness."Judge Holden
"One day you'll get a call, maybe not for a long while."Miss Emily
"Death is the condition of existence."Judge Holden
"She's going to die. She might die anyway."Offred
"Mortality casts its shadow over every moment of joy."The Narrator (omniscient)
"In the neume of the world shall be no place for him at all in the end."Judge Holden
"Death changes things. People, places, even the colour of paint."The Narrator (omniscient)
"What is life? It is light and warmth and motion. It is entropy. It is decay."Judge Holden
"In the end all things return to dust and to silence and to the darkness from which they came."Judge Holden
"Death is but a passing shadow."Jean Valjean
"The dead do not return until their memory is exhausted"Pilar Ternera
"The only immortality available to us is through the memory of others"Aureliano Buendía
"She wanted to die. It was a kind of lust."Briony Tallis
"The consequence of this is that I'm always finding human bones at number 33."Death
"I am haunted by humans."Death
"His soul sat up. It rose from the bed like a mist."Death
"A SMALL FACT You are going to die."Death
"Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die."Death
"Death came knocking at the door."Death
"Death does not discriminate by creed or color."Death
"She died the way she had lived, thinking of others and forgetting herself."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Every man carries within him the memory of his own death."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Death announced itself with a scent of bitter almonds."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The dead do not disappear; they merely change form."Melquiades
"Everything ends, but nothing truly disappears."Melquiades
"In the end we will all of us be dead and there's an end to it."Cormac McCarthy
"She had lived a life of words. And she would die having had them on her lips."Death
"Death does not care about the living. He only collects them."Death
"The most bitter smile in the world was the smile of the dead."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"She was buried beneath a sheet of flowers as though she were a saint."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)