Death Quotes

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

11604 quotes

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"I have died many deaths before truly living."
Siddhartha
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"Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?"
Marcus Aurelius
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"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Morrie Schwartz
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"The fact is, you don't get to choose how you are going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live."
Morrie Schwartz
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"We are not taught to die in this country. We are taught to ignore death."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Everyone knows they are going to die, but nobody believes it."
Morrie Schwartz
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"It's so hard when confronted by a dying man to know what to do."
Mitch Albom
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"A little bird lands on your shoulder and tells you that you're dying. What do you do?"
Morrie Schwartz
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"Dying is only bad when you make it bad."
Morrie Schwartz
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"In our culture, we don't acknowledge that we're dying."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Somehow, catharsis has to happen when you're dying."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Death comes to us all."
Justice Wargrave
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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, things that don't matter about the dead."
Morrie Schwartz
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"You know what happens in the end? You die. You don't know when, you don't know how, but you know that will happen."
Morrie Schwartz
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"You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Everything is only for a day, both the one who remembers and the one who is remembered."
Marcus Aurelius
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"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"Once you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Morrie Schwartz
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"Even in the face of death, life retains meaning through how one meets it"
Viktor Frankl
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"I was dying anyway."
Justice Wargrave
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"Escape exists only in death."
Vera Claythorne
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"Death comes for us all eventually."
Justice Wargrave
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"You will die—yes, you too will die."
Seneca
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"Death comes for us all eventually."
Armstrong
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"What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears."
Seneca
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"You can't kill me. I'm already dead."
Justice Wargrave
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"Nowhere is the one who thinks about his death."
Seneca
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"The greatest king must finally bow to death."
Seneca
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"Death comes to all, in the end."
Justice Wargrave