“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations
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Death Quotes
9 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
“I should have been dead at 30. I should not, by any rights, be sitting here talking to you.”
Anthony Bourdain
“He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive.”
Seneca · Letters to Lucilius
“I would like to die on a day when I am feeling nothing. Like water.”
Ryuichi Sakamoto · Interview, 2017
“Do not go gentle into that good night.”
Dylan Thomas · Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, 1951
“The soul that forgets it will die one day behaves as though the world owes it patience forever.”
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