Death Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Death

Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Death leaves a heartache no one can heal,
love leaves a memory no one can steal.
- From a headstone in Ireland

There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle

A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland

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It's not what you take when
you leave this world behind you.
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
- Randy Travis

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
- The Buddha

For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

Ordinary people seem not to realize
that those who really apply themselves
in the right way to philosophy
are directly and of their own accord
preparing themselves for dying and death.
- Socrates

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha

For those of true faith, death is not a time to mourn,
but a time to celebrate returning to the Creator.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

The moment you start seeing life
as non-serious, a playfulness,
all the burden on your heart disappears.
All the fear of death, of life,
of love - everything disappears.
- Osho

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton

Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I give you this one thought to keep -
I am with you still - I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush,
I am the sweet uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft starts that shine at night.
Do not think of me as gone -
I am with you still in each new dawn.
- Traditional Native American Prayer

Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee

Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

I Cheat Death by Enjoying Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a process of becoming,
a combination of states we have to go through.
Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state
and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
- Anais Nin

Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson

Those we love don't go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
- Anonymous

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

Why live?
Adding one to my count of days, or postponing
a feared death by another day do not inspire me.
I live to experience something new each day -
to learn something new, meet a new friend,
bring joy into someone's life,
feel the wind newly on my skin,
touch a new fear, a new anger,
and with focused intent and good fortune,
find an ample measure of my own joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can learn how to let go of the past.
Whether you have experienced a break up
with someone you cared for deeply,
whether death has taken a loved one,
whether you have had a feud with a friend or family member,
whether you have lost a job.
Move on and let go.
Life can be joyful and rewarding again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
- Thomas Mann

Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb

Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu

Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump

During life, none of us is 100% open to Spirit -
we have too much ego to do that.
Only at death do we give up our ego and completely open to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman

Grief is a normal and natural response to loss.
It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis

Death is the final opening to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We are free only if we face the challenge of freedom,
do the work of freedom, fight the fight of freedom
and die the death for freedom.
- Charles G. Adams

Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch

We come this way but once.
We can either tiptoe through life
and hope we get to death without being badly bruised
or we can live a full, complete life achieving
our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.
- Bob Proctor

Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana

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

Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Death is nothing else but going home to God,
the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.
- Mother Teresa

When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates

I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Careers and relationships also have their cycles
of birth, growth, and death -
to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Too many people are thinking of security
instead of opportunity.
They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Bymes

When you cry and weep,
when you are miserable,
you are alone.
When you celebrate,
the whole existence participates with you.
Only in celebration
do we meet the ultimate, the eternal.
Only in celebration
do we go beyond the circle of birth and death.
- Osho

Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins

People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin

Most unhappiness comes from resisting life.
Occasionally, you have such a strong commitment
to changing the world order that it is worth
struggling against the flow of life.
But don't live your life as if each minor happening
were a matter of life and death.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling

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