Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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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)
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"The yellow flowers marked the approach of death and transformation."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The boundaries between life and death had become impossible to discern."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
José Arcadio Buendía
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"The dead do not truly die; they return in the lives of those who remember them."
Pilar Ternera
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"All of this earth will die and all that is in it."
Judge Holden
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"The last time I saw her was truly the last time."
Death
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"Death had never been so busy."
Death
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"Death was patient, but humanity was not."
Death
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"In her final moment, she was not afraid."
Death
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"There is no such thing as life. There is only degrees of death"
Judge Holden
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"To be born is already in itself a form of death."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"There were marks of death throughout the house."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"A small fact: you are going to die."
Death
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"The younger you are, the more devastating it is when you lose someone."
Death
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"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
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"The last time she saw her brother, he was mining the road to his death."
Death
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"Death occurs in many different forms."
Death
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"Death remains the only certainty."
Death
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"The best people usually die first. That's how you know they're good."
Ove
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"The dead did not leave because they wanted to, but because they were made to leave."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Nobody would leave Macondo by way of the river, for it had turned into blood."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"All things move toward their destruction."
Judge Holden
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"Death came for everyone eventually."
Death
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"The dead are still living in their graves"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"What does it matter if we are forgotten once we are dead"
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
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"The greatest tragedy is not dying, but being forgotten"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"All order is in the end the order of death."
Judge Holden
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"I am haunted by humans."
Death
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"Sometimes I think my eyes have seen too much."
Death