“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways: I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.”Socrates
PhilosophyMystery
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.
“Death is not the worst that can happen to men.”Plato
PhilosophyCourage
“Life is given to no one for ownership, to all for use.”
Lucretius
LifePerspective
“No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.”
Cicero
HopeOld Age
“Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and kings' towers.”
Horace
EqualityMortality
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on.”
Omar Khayyam
“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into the Dust descend.”
Omar Khayyam
Living FullyPoetry
“Death is like sleep; and birth is like awakening from sleep.”
Thiruvalluvar
Life And DeathWisdom
“Yesterday a man was, today he is not: such is the greatness of this world.”
Thiruvalluvar
ImpermanenceWisdom
“Dust thou art, to dust returnest, was not spoken of the soul.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
SoulPoetry
“Approach thy grave like one who wraps the drapery of his couch about him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.”
William Cullen Bryant
“Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. Nothing gold can stay.”
Robert Frost
ImpermanencePoetry
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“No coward soul is mine.”
Emily Brontë
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
Albert Schweitzer
Living FullySpirit
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”Franz Kafka
MeaningShort Quotes
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”Ernest Hemingway
LifeLegacy
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J. R. R. Tolkien
TimeChoices
“Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and above all those who live without love.”
J. K. Rowling
LoveLiving Fully
“The ones that love us never really leave us.”
J. K. Rowling
RemembranceLove
“In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing when you look at the sky at night.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
ComfortStars
“Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.”
Mitch Albom
MortalityHonesty
“Learn how to die, and you learn how to live.”
Mitch Albom
“Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent.”
Steve Jobs
“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.”
Steve Jobs
MortalityWit