CURATED COLLECTION

Facing Death Without Regret

The question of a good death is really a question about a good life — and these quotes answer it head-on.

74 quotes found

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Here must all distrust be left.

—Dante AlighieriPoet & Author

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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Time does not heal all wounds. It only teaches us to live with them.

—Chiung YaoNovelist

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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What happens on Earth stays on Earth.

—Kendrick LamarMusician

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Fortune is blind and so are those in her power.

—Giovanni BoccaccioWriter & Poet

Medieval ERA • Southern Europe

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Time does not heal all. It only teaches us to live with the incurable.

—Lya LuftNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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The state is broken; mountains and rivers remain.

—Du FuPoet & Sage

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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No one can tell what the future will bring forth.

—EuripidesScholar & Thinker

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

—HerodotusHistorian

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

—CiceroStatesman, Lawyer & Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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A woman who has children is not afraid of death.

—Flora NwapaNovelist

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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A person doesn't die when he should, but when he can.

—Gabriel García MárquezNovelist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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We always overestimate change in two years, underestimate change in ten years.

—Bill GatesEntrepreneur & Philanthropist

Late Modern ERA • North America

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The future is uncertain. Eat your soup while it's hot.

—Nasreddin HodjaPhilosopher & Satirist

Medieval ERA • MENA

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History is a great teacher. Men who ignore it are condemned to repeat it.

—Haile SelassieEmperor

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things.

—Anna KomneneHistorian & Emperor

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

—Percy Bysshe ShelleyPoet & Thinker

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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I was born in the night of January second to third, 1891.

—Osip MandelstamPoet

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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The sea eats the rocks. Time eats the hills. Nothing is permanent.

—Kofi AwoonorPoet, Novelist & Diplomat

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things pass.

—Teresa of ÁvilaMystic & Reformer

Renaissance ERA • Southern Europe

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If there were a God, I should not be afraid to meet Him.

—Olive SchreinerNovelist, Feminist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • Southern Africa

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