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
Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein
Fear not death; for the sooner we die,
the longer shall we be immortal.
- Benjamin Franklin
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded,
but the fear of pain or death.
- Epictetus
Without health, life is not life;
it is only a state of languor and suffering -
an image of death.
- The Buddha
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
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
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
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
- Chief Seattle
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson
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
Without zest, what is life?
Just waiting for death?
- Osho
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
'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
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
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
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
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
I Cheat Death by Enjoying Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not mourn the dead, but comfort the living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
O Captain. My Captain. our fearful trip is done.
- Walt Whitman
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep,
so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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
My heart bleeds at the death of every one of our gallant men.
- Robert E. Lee
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
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died.
Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
Grief is a normal and natural response to loss.
It is originally an unlearned feeling process.
Keeping grief inside increases your pain.
- Anne Grant
When someone you love dies,
you don't lose them all at once.
You lose them in pieces over time
- the movie Simon Birch
The River of Life has no meaning, no good, no bad,
no better, no worse, no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS. There is nothing to do.
There is nothing to say.
There is nothing to think.
There is nothing to feel.
The River just flows. The River is the source of all nourishment -
the source of all obstacles.
The River is the source of all life - the source of all death.
The River is the source of all joy - and the source of all sorrow.
Yet the River has no joy - and the River has no sorrow.
The River is just the River.
One can flow harmoniously with the River -
or one can struggle fearfully against the River -
and the River just flows.
One can accept the River - or one can deny the River -
and the River just flows.
One can worship the River of Life - or one can curse the River of Life -
and the River just flows. There is nothing to do - and the River flows.
There is nothing to say - and the River flows.
There is nothing to think - and the River flows.
There is nothing to feel - and the River flows.
The River flows - and all else is our drama.
The River flows - and all else is our invention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran
Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn
Dying is a wild night and a new road.
- Emily Dickinson
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
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
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.
It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Death comes to all,
but great achievements build a monument
which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you break up, your whole identity is
shattered. It's like death.
- Dennis Quaid
Death is just life's next big adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Shrinking away from death
is something unhealthy and abnormal -
which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
- Carl Jung
I postpone death by living, by suffering,
by error, by risking, by giving, by loving.
- Anais Nin
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
Every parting gives a foretaste of death,
every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I cannot know the pain you feel.
I cannot share your memories or your loss.
My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet
know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation
of confusion, misery and death...
I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
- Anne Frank
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela
The third certainty of life, after death and taxes,
is that nothing will work out the way you want.
Life is fully as bad as you think it is.
Choose to live joyfully anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
Death is the final opening to Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Death is not extinguishing the light;
it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
- Rabindranath Tagore
For man with no forgiveness in heart,
life worse punishment than death.
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2
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
Let us all be brave enough
to die the death of a martyr,
but let no one lust for martyrdom.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
Does who we are begin with breath,
depend on form, or end with death?
- Kirtana
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valor and religion.
For want of valor is want of religious faith.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully, is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To the well-organized mind,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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