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Death Quotes

7 quotes on death, loss and mortality — from the classics to the everyday.

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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.
Edna St. Vincent Millay · Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1952

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

C.S. Lewis · A Grief Observed, 1961

DeathLife

“I should have been dead at 30. I should not, by any rights, be sitting here talking to you.”

Anthony Bourdain

DeathLife

“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”

Seneca · Letters to Lucilius

DeathMotivation

“I would like to die on a day when I am feeling nothing. Like water.”

Ryuichi Sakamoto · Interview, 2017

DeathPhilosophy

“Do not go gentle into that good night.”

Dylan Thomas · Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, 1951

DeathInspiration

“The soul that forgets it will die one day behaves as though the world owes it patience forever.”

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DeathWisdom