Memorable Quotes About Death

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"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."
Leo Buscaglia
"Death is the beginning of something."
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."
Bertolt Brecht
"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."
Henry Van Dyke
"Death is the veil which those who live call life."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them."
George Eliot
"Life is a dream walking, death is going home."
Chinese Proverb
"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
Mitch Albom
"Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely."
Buddha
"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate."
Ambrose Bierce
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
George Santayana
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
Mark Twain
"Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come."
Rabindranath Tagore
"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."
Voltaire
"It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen
"When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause."
William Shakespeare
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men."
Charles de Gaulle
"If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death."
Samuel Butler
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"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
Isaac Asimov
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
Oscar Wilde
"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
Leonardo Da Vinci
"Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down."
Dick Sharples
"Death is not the end, but a new beginning."
Unknown
"Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it."
Steve Jobs
"Death is the greatest of all human blessings."
Socrates
"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time."
Leo Buscaglia
"Death is the last chapter in time, but the first chapter in eternity."
Unknown
"Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you."
Unknown
"Death is beautiful when seen to be a law and not an accident."
Henry David Thoreau
"Death is as sure for that which is born as birth is for that which is dead."
Francis Bacon
"Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected."
Sogyal Rinpoche
"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive."
Don Miguel Ruiz
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"Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that, I think everything will be all right."
Alice Thomas Ellis
"Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon."
Unknown
"Death is not the extinguishing of the light; it is the putting out of the lamp because the dawn has come."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."
Haruki Murakami
"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life."
Peter Weir
"Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen."
Kubler-Ross
"Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help."
Carter Burwell
"Death is peaceful, life is harder."
Stephenie Meyer
"Death is the liberation from the pain, the final act of love."
Manchee
"Death is an inevitable part of life that we all must face."
Unknown
"Death is not the end; there remains the litigation over the estate."
Ambrose Bierce
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
Winston Churchill
"To die will be an awfully big adventure."
J.M. Barrie
"Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life."
Bertolt Brecht
"Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell."
Henry Ward Beecher
"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic."
W. H. Auden
"When we are forgotten, we cease to exist."
Erasing Hell
"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?"
Edgar Allan Poe
"After your death, you will be what you were before your birth."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
Helen Keller
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
Marcus Aurelius
"I shan't mind how I go, but I want to know what on earth happens when I'm gone."
Dodie Smith
"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."
Epicurus
"The idea is to die young as late as possible."
Ashley Montagu
"Life asked death, 'Why do people love me but hate you?' Death responded, 'Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth.'"
Unknown
"Not only is death inevitable; death is necessary for us to inherit the new that God has for us."
C.S. Lewis
"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
J.K. Rowling
"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
Oscar Wilde
"Death is the solution to all problems. No man – no problem."
Joseph Stalin
"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
Terry Pratchett
"Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation."
Alejandro González Iñárritu
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."
Norman Cousins
"Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities."
George R.R. Martin
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
Chuck Palahniuk
"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."
Khalil Gibran
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
Mark Twain
"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."
A. Sachs
"It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."
Langston Hughes
"Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers."
Wallace Stevens
"Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow."
Khalil Gibran
"Farewell, all joys; O Death, come close mine eyes!"
William Shakespeare
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
Ernest Hemingway
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."
Francis Bacon
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen
"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."
Edgar Allan Poe
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
Anais Nin
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."
Marcus Aurelius
"Death is not the opposite of life but a part of it."
Haruki Murakami
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The concept of death is unique to humans. We are the only species that knows that it is going to die someday."
Deepak Chopra
"Everything is change; nothing dies."
Ovid
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
William Shakespeare
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
Steve Jobs
"The song is ended, but the melody lingers on."
Irving Berlin
"Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force."
Yoda
"Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life."
Natalie Babbitt
"Life is eternal and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight."
Rossiter W. Raymond
"The fear of death is the beginning of slavery."
Khalil Gibran
"Death is the greatest teacher of all."
Michael G. Scott
"When we lose one we love, our sad thoughts turn to a little grave."
Helen Steiner Rice
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
Helen Keller
"Death is just another path, one that we all must take."
J.R.R. Tolkien
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living."
Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Your honor, I am a great believer in the will to live."
Rebecca Danese
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends, but that it never truly begins."
Toni Morrison
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
Oscar Wilde
"Death, my friends, is a part of life."
Victor Hugo
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"Let us not be too quick to blame the dead; there are reasons why they lie still."
John Green
"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
Thomas Campbell
"The goal is not to live forever, but to create something that will."
Chuck Palahniuk
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