Death Quotes
The one certainty. These quotes face mortality with wisdom, humor, and grace.
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"The most terrible thing about death is not that we die, but that we leave too much unfinished."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The yellow flowers marked the approach of death and transformation."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The boundaries between life and death had become impossible to discern."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."José Arcadio Buendía
"The dead do not truly die; they return in the lives of those who remember them."Pilar Ternera
"All of this earth will die and all that is in it."Judge Holden
"The last time I saw her was truly the last time."Death
"Death had never been so busy."Death
"Death was patient, but humanity was not."Death
"In her final moment, she was not afraid."Death
"There is no such thing as life. There is only degrees of death"Judge Holden
"To be born is already in itself a form of death."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"There were marks of death throughout the house."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"A small fact: you are going to die."Death
"The younger you are, the more devastating it is when you lose someone."Death
"A small fact: You are going to die. Despite every effort, no ability to enjoy the blue sky, not a single instrument nor a stone thrown at a window will preserve you."Death
"The last time she saw her brother, he was mining the road to his death."Death
"Death occurs in many different forms."Death
"Death remains the only certainty."Death
"The best people usually die first. That's how you know they're good."Ove
"The dead did not leave because they wanted to, but because they were made to leave."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"Nobody would leave Macondo by way of the river, for it had turned into blood."Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"All things move toward their destruction."Judge Holden
"Death came for everyone eventually."Death
"The dead are still living in their graves"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"What does it matter if we are forgotten once we are dead"Colonel Aureliano Buendía
"The greatest tragedy is not dying, but being forgotten"Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"All order is in the end the order of death."Judge Holden
"I am haunted by humans."Death
"Sometimes I think my eyes have seen too much."Death