Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"Death keeps meticulous records, but he also keeps secrets."
Death
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"Death and I are old acquaintances in war, but the living are my mystery."
Death
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"We all carry our own death within us."
Florentino Ariza
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Aureliano Buendía
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"I am haunted by humans."
Death
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"A small fact: You are going to die."
Death
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"Everything that was possible died with him."
Patroclus
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"The only regret he had was not having died."
Florentino Ariza
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"I could introduce myself properly, but it's not necessary."
Death
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"I arrive as the smoke descends."
Death
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"Even death can be a friend."
Death
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"One cannot make the dead animate."
Judge Holden
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"She really had been through death, but returned because she could not endure the solitude of death."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Remedios the Beauty did not say goodbye to anyone, merely lay down on her bed to wait for the six o'clock train."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"It was then that she realized that death is not the end."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"In the end, all that remained was silence and dust."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"I am death. And I make no apologies for my work."
Death
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"I didn't kill you. I turned you into a promise."
Death
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"Even death has favorites."
Death
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"He does not come back to himself. He is mended but not whole."
Patroclus
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"I learned to read death in his eyes."
Patroclus
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Aureliano Buendía
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"The dead were more alive than the living."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"I think about dying a lot."
Connell Waldron
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"This is the time I truly detest being human, or machine, or whatever I am."
Death
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"I am Death, and I have never been busier."
Death
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"Death had already taken so much from her."
Death
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"The mirrors would be covered and one could not look at the dead"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The only thing they left behind was a wake of ghost footprints in the room."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Death really did exist then."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)