Death Quotes

“Come to terms with death; thereafter anything is possible.”

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death saves us.”

Irvin D. Yalom

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

Mark Twain

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

Woody Allen

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying.”

Woody Allen

“Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”

“I told you I was ill.”

Spike Milligan

“On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.”

Joan Didion

“Grief is just love with no place to go.”

Jamie Anderson

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.”

Washington Irving

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.”

“Life is eternal, and love is immortal, and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.”

Rossiter Worthington Raymond

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

Pericles

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“Home is the sailor, home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal.”

Irish Proverb

“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”

Chief Seattle

“Death is the great leveller.”

English Proverb

“Memento mori: remember that you must die.”

Latin Proverb

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”