Death Quotes

“Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.”

“Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.”

“Life is long if you know how to use it.”

Seneca

“Let us prepare our minds as if we'd come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing.”

Seneca

“I cannot escape death, but at least I can escape the fear of it.”

“To philosophize is to learn to die.”

Michel de Montaigne

“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.”

Michel de Montaigne

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

“All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“Death, be not proud.”

John Donne

“One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”

John Donne

“And may there be no sadness of farewell, when I embark.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”

Christina Rossetti

“Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.”

Henry Scott Holland

“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies.”

William Penn

“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”

Victor Hugo

“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, and to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.”

Emily Dickinson

“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”

Kahlil Gibran

“Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end.”

“Birth and death are not two different states, but different aspects of the same state.”

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation.”

Albert Einstein

“For us believing physicists, the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

Albert Einstein