“Who knows if life be not death, and death life?”
Euripides
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Death Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DEATH
Death Quotes
Read 200 of the best death quotes about grief, loss, remembrance and the meaning of life, from Shakespeare, Seneca, John Donne, the Bible and more.
“Then, Cebes, beyond question, the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will truly exist in another world.”
Plato
SoulImmortality
“Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?”
Socrates
Last WordsDuty
“With my face downwards; for in a little while everything will be turned upside down.”
Diogenes
Last WordsFunny
“No man enjoys the true taste of life but he who is ready and willing to quit it.”
Seneca
Living FullyAcceptance
“Fortune has taken away, but Fortune has given.”
Seneca
GratitudeLoss
“Alexander the Macedonian and his groom by death were brought to the same state.”
Marcus Aurelius
EqualityMortality
“I do not regret having lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain.”
Cicero
LegacyPurpose
“We are but dust and shadow.”
Horace
MortalityHumility
“Each has his own day appointed.”
Virgil
FateAcceptance
“When a bird is about to die, its notes are mournful; when a man is about to die, his words are good.”
Confucius
Last WordsWisdom
“He who dies and yet does not perish, has longevity.”
Lao Tzu
LegacyImmortality
“Men come forth and live; they enter again and die.”
Lao Tzu
Life CycleNature
“How do I know that he who dreads death is not as a child who has lost the way and does not know his way home?”
Chuang Tzu
Fear Of DeathGoing Home
“Look upon the world as a bubble, look upon it as a mirage: the king of death does not see him who thus looks down upon the world.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
ImpermanenceDetachment
“I died as mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
Rumi
TransformationFearlessness
“I sometimes think that never blows so red the Rose as where some buried Caesar bled.”
Omar Khayyam
LegacyNature
“Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, not one returns to tell us of the Road.”
Omar Khayyam
MysteryAfterlife
“If thy bonds be not broken whilst living, what hope of deliverance in death?”
Kabir
FreedomSpirituality
“On the day when death will knock at thy door what wilt thou offer to him? Oh, I will set before my guest the full vessel of my life.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Living FullyCourage
“I was not aware of the moment when I first crossed the threshold of this life.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Life CycleMystery
“Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.”
Rabindranath Tagore
BeautyAcceptance
“For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?”
Kahlil Gibran
FreedomPeace
“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.”
Kahlil Gibran
UnityLife Cycle
“Be absolute for death; either death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.”
William Shakespeare
AcceptancePerspective