13,737 Quotes About Death

  • Author Guy de Maupassant
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    Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

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  • Author Rupi Kaur
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    i have survived far too much to go quietlylet a meteor take mecall the thunder for backupmy death will be grandthe land will crackthe sun will eat itself- the day I leave

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  • Author Graham Greene
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    How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity to invent a new vice: the animals knew as much. It was for this world that Christ had died: the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater the glory lay around the death; it was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or civilization--it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.

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  • Author Mary Downing Hahn
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    Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…

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