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title: "21 Meaning Death Quotes by 18 authors"
description: "Browse 21 Meaning Death quotes by 18 authors. Discover the best Meaning Death sayings and thoughts."
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> [Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/those-only-can-thoroughly-feel-the-meaning-of-death-who-know-what-is/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [Ah, Lord Jesus! I never knew Your love till I understood the meaning of Your death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/ah-lord-jesus-i-never-knew-your-love-till-i-understood-the-meaning-of/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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> [“When the source of all my meaning came to die, so did the meaning of death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sean-norris/when-the-source-of-all-my-meaning-came-to-die-so-did-the-meaning-of/)

[Sean Norris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sean-norris/)

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> [The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leo-tolstoy/the-true-office-of-any-faith-is-to-give-life-a-meaning-which-death/)

[Leo Tolstoy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leo-tolstoy/)

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> [“It is only life that has meaning, not death,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-l-chalker/it-is-only-life-that-has-meaning-not-death/)

[Jack L. Chalker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-l-chalker/)

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> [The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss. Love and death are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otsuichi/the-more-one-loves-the-heavier-the-meaning-of-death-becomes-and-the/)

[Otsuichi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otsuichi/)

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> [Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/only-fanatics-in-religion-as-well-as-in-politics-can-find-a-meaning/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [“The more one loves, the heavier the meaning of death becomes, and the deeper the sense of loss.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otsuichi/the-more-one-loves-the-heavier-the-meaning-of-death-becomes-and-the-2/)

[Otsuichi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otsuichi/)

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> [“Why would you ever choose to die?’ ‘Because a life with no end loses meaning. Death defines life. One day, I hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/m-j-hearle/why-would-you-ever-choose-to-die-because-a-life-with-no-end-loses/)

[M.J. Hearle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/m-j-hearle/)

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> [Without death, our lives would have no meaning. Death frames our end for us and also puts a value on things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-leider/without-death-our-lives-would-have-no-meaning-death-frames-our-end/)

[Richard Leider](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-leider/)

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> [“You want to know the meaning of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/you-want-to-know-the-meaning-of-death-but-how-shall-you-find-it/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [“Dearest love, let me count the ways. Dismemberment, garroted, poisoned, drowned, named. I read that as soon as a species is named…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lindsay-hunter/dearest-love-let-me-count-the-ways-dismemberment-garroted-poisoned/)

[Lindsay Hunter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lindsay-hunter/)

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> [“I think maybe Gladstone had it right. I think my father did. They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-lynch/i-think-maybe-gladstone-had-it-right-i-think-my-father-did-they/)

[Thomas Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-lynch/)

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> [Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-stoppard/rosencrantz-we-might-as-well-be-dead-do-you-think-death-could/)

[Tom Stoppard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-stoppard/)

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> [“They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-lynch/they-understood-that-the-meaning-of-life-is-connected-inextricably-to/)

[Thomas Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-lynch/)

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> [“And I feel I have something very serious and urgent to say to you, my non-existent reader, and I feel I should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/and-i-feel-i-have-something-very-serious-and-urgent-to-say-to-you-my/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/that-life-whatever-else-it-is-is-short-that-fate-is-cruel-but-maybe/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

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> [I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-lee/i-don-t-know-what-is-the-meaning-of-death-but-i-am-not-afraid-to-die/)

[Bruce Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-lee/)

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> [“this responsibility for the death of my (m)other, is a significance so irreducible that it is from it that the meaning of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erin-moure/this-responsibility-for-the-death-of-my-m-other-is-a-significance-so/)

[Erin Moure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erin-moure/)

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> [In brief, I regard love as a more decisive focus of meaning than death. In terms of Heidegger's argument, this is because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-pattison/in-brief-i-regard-love-as-a-more-decisive-focus-of-meaning-than-death/)

[George Pattison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-pattison/)

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> [“Don't neglect life by worrying about Death. - I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruce-lee/don-t-neglect-life-by-worrying-about-death-i-don-t-know-what-is-the/)

[Bruce Lee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruce-lee/)

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