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Quotes about Life & Death — 17 Timeless Lines

17 quotes about life & death, arranged the way they appear in Quote 2048: from the lightest line on the 2 tile to the crown quote on the 2048 tile, and on to 131072 in the app.

All quotes come from public-domain works or traditional proverbs; attributions were checked against their sources.

1. 2

   Better to roll in mud alive than dead

   — Proverb

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2. 4

   A dead minister is worse off than a live dog

   — Proverb

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3. 8

   Life is short, death is long

   — Traditional

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4. 16

   Even the afterlife road needs travel money

   — Proverb

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5. 32

   To fear death is to claim knowledge we lack

   — Socrates

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6. 64

   Think of death as ordinary as a day passing

   — Marcus Aurelius

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7. 128

   We are dying every day

   — Seneca

   Original · LatinCotidie morimur

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8. 256

   True philosophers practice dying

   — Socrates

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9. 512

   Death is nothing to us

   — Epicurus

   Original · Ancient Greekὁ θάνατος οὐδὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς

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10. 1024

    To philosophize is to learn to die

    — Montaigne

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11. 2048👑 Crown quote

    We are but dust and shadow

    — Horace

    Original · LatinPulvis et umbra sumus

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12. Levels 4096–131072 continue in the app.
13. 4096

    A life well used brings a happy death

    — Leonardo da Vinci

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14. 8192

    Death stamps value on the coin of life

    — Tagore

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15. 16384

    Life and death are like day and night

    — Zhuangzi

    Original · Classical Chinese死生，晝夜事也

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16. 32768

    I to die, you to live; God knows which

    — Socrates

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17. 65536

    Each of us carries his death within him, as a fruit carries its stone

    — Rilke

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18. 131072

    The generations of men are as leaves

    — Homer

    Original · Ancient Greekοἵη περ φύλλων γενεή, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν

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