“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
Norman Cousins
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Death Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DEATH
Death Quotes
Read 200 of the best death quotes about life, mortality, grief and remembrance from Marcus Aurelius, Rabindranath Tagore, John Donne, Kahlil Gibran, Helen Keller and more.
“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”P. J. O'Rourke
FunnyReading
“If we don't know life, how can we know death?”
Confucius
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”Benjamin Franklin
CertaintyFamous Lines
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
Isaac Asimov
Life And DeathWit
“Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.”
Jesse Jackson
Good DeedsLegacy
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Free SpeechPrinciples
“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods?”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”
Harriet Tubman
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”
Bill Shankly
FunnyFootball
“Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.”
Tecumseh
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
Seneca
EternityStoicism
“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
Epicurus
Fear Of DeathPhilosophy
“Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me.”
Emily Dickinson
PoetryMortality
“There is no death! What seems so is transition.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
HopeTransition
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
Thomas Campbell
RemembranceLegacy
“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.”Helen Keller
GriefLove
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
Mitch Albom
GriefLove
“Grief is the price we pay for love.”
Queen Elizabeth II
GriefLove
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”
Kahlil Gibran
“Life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”
Kahlil Gibran
Life And DeathOneness
“For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time.”
The Bhagavad Gita
SoulEternity
“This body is not me. I am life without boundaries. I have never been born, and I have never died.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
PeaceMindfulness
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
J. K. Rowling
AdventureCourage
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
J. M. Barrie
AdventurePeter Pan