Death Quotes
Death is one of the most difficult things that we all have to deal with in our lives. It is inevitable, that is why we have compiled insightful death quotes and sayings to provide solace in your darkest moments.
In this article, you will find a collection of death quotes to take solace in. You can also send to your friends and loved ones to encourage them when they are grieving.
60 Death Quotes & Sayings
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.-Albert Einstein
“Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.”– Henry Ward Beecher
“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”– Martin Luther
A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better. Paulo Coelho
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk
Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door which leads man into life eternal. Martin Luther King Jr
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. Nelson Mandela
Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity. Mother Teresa
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. __Khalil Gibran
“Thinking and talking about death need not be morbid; they may be quite the opposite. Ignorance and fear of death overshadow life, while knowing and accepting death erases this shadow.” Lily Pincus
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”― J.K. Rowling
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It’s life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.”– Steve Jobs
Not only is death inevitable; death is necessary for us to inherit the new life we are to enjoy in Christ. Max Lucado
“None of us knows the day of our death. However, if we knew that death is actually our acquisition, we would remove the fear of death from our lives.” Sunday Adelaja
“For Christians, death ought not to be dreaded but accepted and embraced as a means of our final growth and wholeness.” Fr. Cedric Pisegna
“And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief.” – William Cullen Bryant
“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?”—Epicurus
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. Leonardo da Vinci
“Death can come at any age, but the pride of life fools a person into thinking that day is far away.” – John Buttrick
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”― Woody Allen
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”– Buddha
And in a very real sense, our world is changed the moment a loved one dies because each person we love makes up a precious and vital piece of our world. At such a challenging time, we need to be patient with the chaos we are now enduring both inside us and around us. Carol Staudacher
It is as natural to die as it is to be born. Francis Bacon
“Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.” William Mitford
“Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.” – Jean Cameron
“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 nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.’”— Robin Williams
Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day. Napoleon Bonaparte
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix
― Jimi Hendrix
“Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is nothing more to worry about!”– Paramahansa Yogananda
I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. Elisabeth Kubler
“Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice. Our culture, which prides itself on its open-mindedness and candor, shows an intense antipathy to facing the greatest of all human questions.” Dinesh D’Souza
Graves cannot contain my spirit; death is not the end of time,
Though my body turns to ashes, I will rest in peace sublime.~~Greta Zwaan
Though my body turns to ashes, I will rest in peace sublime.~~Greta Zwaan
“I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“The death of a beloved is an amputation.” — C. S. Lewis
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. George Eliot
“The truth I have been seeking — this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So — we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace.”— Bruce Lee
“We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.” – Henry Ward Beecher
You needn’t die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end. Stephen King
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.”– Friedrich Nietzsche
As an adult, you understand the enormous heartbreak caused by the death of a loved one. You have the maturity, reasoning, language development, and network of friends to help you cope. None of these coping strategies is available to a grieving child, though.” Victoria Ryan
“The actuality of death and the experience of grief sinks in at different times for everyone.” Valerie Orr
“If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.” —James O’Barr
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. Leo Tolstoy
“I’m not afraid of death because I don’t believe in it. It’s just getting out of one car, and into another.” – John Lennon
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities. George R.R. Martin
“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.”—Author unknown
“Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.” – Langston Hughes
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett
― Terry Pratchett
“People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.– Jim Morrison
Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Francis Bacon
“Victory over the enemy of death itself is possible if we’re prepared to humbly enter by faith into the victory over death which Jesus has won for us.” Brian Johnston
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” – Norman Cousins
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. Rumi
“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Death is an ending. Death is a closing. Death is idle words in the ebb and flow of life.”- Elizabeth Edwards
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
Man always dies before he is fully born.__Erich Fromm
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.__Winston Churchill