Death Quotes - Page 3

• Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Dying, Welcome

  Marcus Aurelius (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Marcus Aurelius (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Life, Beautiful, Time

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.205, Wordsworth Editions

  195 Copy quote

  Show source

• A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Loss, Friend Died, Dies

  16 Copy quote

• The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

  Thornton Wilder

  Gratitude, Grief, Grateful

  63 Copy quote

• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Good Morning, Sleep

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

  Epicurus

  Life And Death, Death Anniversary, Death And Dying

  "Wisdom's folly No.18" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2005.

  61 Copy quote

  Show source

• You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

  Joan Baez

  Inspirational, Positive, Fun

  Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

  98 Copy quote

  Show source

• Death is just a change in lifestyles.

  Stephen Levine

  Life, Change, Grieving

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.290, Anchor

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love

  Madame de Stael

  Love, Hands, Eulogy

  30 Copy quote

• When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death.
  And neither one particularly appeals to me.

  Steven Morrissey

  Life, Song, Lying

  "Song: 'Nowhere Fast'". 1985.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

  117 Copy quote

• He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead.

  Voltaire

  Loyal, Patriot, Humanitarian

  42 Copy quote

• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  560 Copy quote

• When death gives us a long lease of life, it takes as hostages all those whom we have loved.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Long, Giving, Lease

  7 Copy quote

• One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  389 Copy quote

• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

  207 Copy quote

  Show source

• You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  120 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Funeral, Dying, Fulfillment In Life

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Codice Trivulziano 281

  128 Copy quote

  Show source

• You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?

  Confucius

  Life, Understanding

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

  19 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

  97 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

  Pope Paul VI

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  285 Copy quote

• Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

  Carter Burwell

  Giving, Our Society, Helping

  45 Copy quote

• For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Memorial Day, Time

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2008). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.64, Courier Corporation

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Sympathy, Wisdom, Grief

  78 Copy quote