Death Quotes
Quotations about death, paired with their attributed speakers or authors.
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| ID | Quote | Person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. | Aristotle |
| 2 | Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 3 | Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. | Dame Edna Everage |
| 4 | In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. | Benjamin Franklin |
| 5 | No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. | Lord Byron |
| 6 | Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. | Christopher Morely |
| 7 | The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? | Jeremy Taylor |
| 8 | The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. | Amy Bloom |
| 9 | The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. | W. Somerset Maugham |
| 10 | The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. | Kurt Vonnegut |
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Last checked against sources: October 15, 2026.
Last changed: October 15, 2026. This may reflect a change to the data or its description; it is not a coverage-through date.
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